The Colony of Aech En is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its daily referendums, vat-grown people, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 13.608 billion Aech Enians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 52.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Aech Enian economy, worth 541 trillion Hyns 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. 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 39,774 Hyns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame, thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, and programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Aech En's national animal is the Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aech En is ranked 270,250^th in the world and 3,316^th in the South Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 39,774.87 Standard Monetary Units.