The United Socialist States of The Acen Isles is a massive, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 4.262 billion Acen Islesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Norfolk Hailsham. The average income tax rate is 93.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Acen Islesian economy, worth 341 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 extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 80,039 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The blind lead the blind in social welfare, heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-dollar treacle machine, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", and relationships often break down when doctors tell couples they are genetically incompatible. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Acen Isles's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Acen Isles is ranked 99,562^nd in the world and 3^rd in Karls Kommunist Kounty for Most Devout, with 30.6 Prayers Per Hour.