The 🐜 Colony 🐜 of Amberleaf is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Vilight Veilchen with a fair hand, and notable for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 4.559 billion Amberlevians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Silverlore. The average income tax rate is 94.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Amberlevian economy, worth 806 trillion Amber Leaves 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 176,930 Amber Leaves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A five-year-old and a convicted terrorist can sit alongside one another in jury service, sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers, and for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Amberleaf's national animal is the Aphid, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Work.

Amberleaf is ranked 4,648^th in the world and 3^rd in The Hole To Hide In for Most Cultured, scoring 171 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.