The Constitutional Monarchy of The City-State of Amersstedt is a huge, genial nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, parental licensing program, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic population of 403 million Amersstedtians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Free Cities of Amersstedt and Magnonion. The average income tax rate is 49.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Amersstedtian economy, worth 38.4 trillion Amersstedtian Euros a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 95,233 Amersstedtian Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Free Cities of Amersstedt and Magnonion. Crime is totally unknown. The City-State of Amersstedt's national animal is the European Shorthair, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The City-State of Amersstedt is ranked 111,275^th in the world and 84^th in Gay for Least Corrupt Governments, with 93.22 percentage of bribes refused.