The Alternating Current of AC is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Ohm with an iron fist, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, state-planned economy, and ban on automobiles. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 20.297 billion Currents are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ampère. The average income tax rate is 74.5%.

The frighteningly efficient ACian economy, worth a remarkable 2,848 trillion Megawatthours a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 140,336 Megawatthours, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Petting zoos have loose fingers strewn about, starving citizens are offered nuclear pasta, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, and murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AC's national animal is the Electron, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Volt.

AC is ranked 26,517^th in the world and 10^th in The Local Cluster for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 74.52 Effective Tax Rate.