The Worker's State of AwEsAmEl is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by The Supreme Soviet of Councils with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 860 million Socialists 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 Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Junipero. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming AwEsAmElian economy, worth 104 trillion Labor Vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 121,916 Labor Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise, elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-Labor Voucher mansions, and knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AwEsAmEl's national animal is the Sasquatch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

AwEsAmEl is ranked 204,539^th in the world and 586^th in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -3.16 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.