The Proletarian rule of AJ Empire is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Karl Marx with an even hand, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 835 million Informatives are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Equity city. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient AJ Empirean economy, worth 107 trillion ☭Marxes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 128,179 ☭Marxes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests, and the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Informatives any less frightened. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AJ Empire's national animal is the Black cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

AJ Empire is ranked 202,234^th in the world and 940^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Retail Industry, scoring -6.24 on the Shrinkwrap Consignment Productivity Index.