The State of Apice is a gargantuan, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 21.587 billion wests are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The relatively small, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Douglas Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.2%.

The powerhouse Apicean economy, worth a remarkable 1,162 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 53,839 betales, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 233,131 per year while the poor average 7,901, a ratio of 29.5 to 1.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter', graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, and Apice has designated Douglas Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Apice's national animal is the deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Apice is ranked 130,346^th in the world and 1^st in Funafuti for Safest, scoring 69.31 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.