The Worker's State of AwEsAmEl is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by The Supreme Soviet of Councils with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 885 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 Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of San Junipero. The average income tax rate is 88.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming AwEsAmElian economy, worth 108 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 122,464 Labor Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft, elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and the nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs. 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 38,018^th in the world and 413^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,856.2 on the Gilded Widget Scale.