The Armed Republic of Akurso is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 10.295 billion Akursoans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dis. The average income tax rate is 89.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Akursoan economy, worth a remarkable 1,434 trillion metals a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,327 metals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts, Dis has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, and vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Akurso's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Akurso is ranked 14,503^rd in the world and 1^st in Picture Warsia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 94.73 law-abiding acts per hour.