The Federal Republic of Aioeu is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by John Cooper with a fair hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, enforced nudity, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.358 billion Aioeuans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 50.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Aioeuan economy, worth 569 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Cheese Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 34,813 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers, Aioeu successfully hosted the Astronomy Olympics, acute politicians deride opposition members for being obtuse, and some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aioeu's national animal is the penguin and its national religion is Buddhism.

Aioeu is ranked 151,838^th in the world and 2^nd in Astronomy for Largest Black Market, with 1.11 trillion Standard Monetary Units.