The Mind Altering Trip of The Acid Tests is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by The Merry Pranksters with a fair hand, and renowned for its rampant corporate plagiarism, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 9.736 billion Acid Testsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Haight-Ashbury. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Acid Testsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,662 trillion dollars 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 170,787 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and graffiti graces every city's streets. Crime is totally unknown. The Acid Tests's national animal is the dove, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is The League For Spiritual Discovery.

The Acid Tests is ranked 9,975^th in the world and 5^th in Hippy Haven for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 408.41 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.