The Federated Democratic States of Athinya is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Alejandro Lorenski with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.763 billion Athinyans 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 Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Thianya City. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Athinyan economy, worth 245 trillion Internationale Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 139,186 Internationale Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers, pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, President Alejandro Lorenski's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, and the Athinyan Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Athinya's national animal is the Athinyan Seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secularism.

Athinya is ranked 14,048^th in the world and 279^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Governments, scoring 33.47 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.