The Diplomatically Immune State of America the Greater is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by the people with a fair hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 7.762 billion Americans the Greater are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Worth. The average income tax rate is 99.9%.

The frighteningly efficient American the Greater economy, worth a remarkable 1,618 trillion chocolate coins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 208,464 chocolate coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills, school football matches are usually five-a-side, the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes, and the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller. Crime is totally unknown. America the Greater's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

America the Greater is ranked 947^th in the world and 4^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Beautiful Environments, with 5,090.35 pounds of wildlife per square mile.