The Confederacy of Athanes Empire is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Thane Hammerstruck with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 10.374 billion Athanes Empireans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Athanes Plains. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Athanes Empirean economy, worth a remarkable 1,102 trillion Athashians a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 106,257 Athashians, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails', courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Athanes Empireans, anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card, and soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Athanes Empire's national animal is the Athashian Boa Viper Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Fire Lion.

Athanes Empire is ranked 159,769^th in the world and 92^nd in The Free Nations Region for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 752.48 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.