The Unified Electorates of Ainslie is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Tobius Turrena with an even hand, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 22.265 billion Ainslians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Austara. The average income tax rate is 96.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Ainsliean economy, worth a remarkable 2,492 trillion Arnsens a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 111,948 Arnsens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Aristocracy is given the bird and called out as a lark, structures are raised on promises, there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates, and children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ainslie's national animal is the Wallaran, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ainslie is ranked 33,470^th in the world and 42^nd in The Western Isles for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 236.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.