The Free Haven of Aerika is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 612 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 74.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Aerikan economy, worth 63.0 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 102,900 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

In life full of care there is no time to stop and stare, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation, and Leader's Twitcher account is typically used to share dire carebear memes rather than government policy. 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 222,707^th in the world and 3,288^th in The North Pacific for Largest Populations, with 612 million capita.