The Republic of Ampersans is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 587 million Ampersansians 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, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 54.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Ampersansian economy, worth 36.0 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 61,348 florins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail, the nation's skies are now a wasteland, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, and kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ampersans's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ampersans is ranked 10,052^nd in the world and 1^st in Amperregion for Safest, scoring 119.56 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.