The Empire of Installation Athena is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 292 million Installation Athenans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Installation Athenan economy, worth 13.3 trillion Kitheoplean Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Book Publishing, and Gambling. Average income is 45,455 Kitheoplean Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

They who do not work shall not eat, protecting the land is holey work, human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity, and motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Installation Athena's national animal is the Athenan Mothman, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Installation Athena is ranked 254,253^rd in the world and 6^th in The Black Dahlia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 199.98 pounds of wildlife per square mile.