The Fanfic State of Aikea is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Darius Penn with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 3.145 billion Aikeans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Anchorage. The average income tax rate is 68.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Aikean economy, worth 220 trillion mariocoins a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,014 mariocoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

More and more people are signing up for the government party, mass shootings have become the new normal, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, and the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aikea's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Aikea is ranked 78,638^th in the world and 144^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,268.8 on the Gilded Widget Scale.