The Republic of AmperAmper is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its daily referendums, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 742 million AmperAmperians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.5%.

The all-consuming AmperAmperian economy, worth 66.8 trillion lire a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 90,034 lire, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 471,309 per year while the poor average 9,227, a ratio of 51.1 to 1.

Tourists soak their luggage in boiling water before unpacking, atheists refusing to attend church are heavily fined by the government, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, and new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in AmperAmper to be bombproof. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AmperAmper's national animal is the cobra.

AmperAmper is ranked 250,083^rd in the world and 25^th in Amperregion for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.92 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.