The Allied States of Ampersample is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its national health service, otherworldly petting zoo, and enslaved workforce. The compassionate population of 357 million Ampersampleans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 49.4%.

The strong Ampersamplean economy, worth 21.4 trillion Mini Mints a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 59,806 Mini Mints, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

Illicit spice trade makes desert merchants wrangling worms blush, calling dibs is an unalienable right, the government is under the thumb of countless special interests, and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ampersample's national animal is the Poyo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ampersample is ranked 201,429^th in the world and 18^th in Amperregion for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring zero on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.