The Republic of ARCHITECTURAL GLASS is a massive, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its public floggings, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 2.574 billion ARCHITECTURAL GLASSians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Healthcare, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while International Aid and Industry aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.2%.

The strong ARCHITECTURAL GLASSian economy, worth 120 trillion shards a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 46,811 shards, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 262,285 per year while the poor average 4,145, a ratio of 63.3 to 1.

Police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers, beggars lack pockets for spare change, Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers, and every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. ARCHITECTURAL GLASS's national animal is the glass shark, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

ARCHITECTURAL GLASS is ranked 130,188^th in the world and 1^st in ChapoChat for Most Patriotic, with 13.65 flags saluted per person per day.