The Free Haven of Aerika is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 650 million Aerikans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Birchville. The average income tax rate is 76.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aerikan economy, worth 66.5 trillion bits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,247 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers, funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room, Birchville is a police state during international summits, and major boxing matches are held in government buildings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aerika's national animal is the dire carebear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aerika is ranked 18,177^th in the world and 750^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 296.02 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.