The Pelagic Borderlands of Ambia Strata is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Azure Fether with a fair hand, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, hatred of cheese, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 4.247 billion Plumes are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Firmament Soma. The average income tax rate is 97.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Plumed economy, worth 789 trillion nils 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, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 185,991 nils, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fraternities are rejoicing at government-subsidized partying, the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands, foreign leaders with unpaid parking tickets are often refused entry, and conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies. Crime is totally unknown. Ambia Strata's national animal is the Axolotl, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Flow.

Ambia Strata is ranked 310,563^rd in the world and 226^th in Wintreath for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -23.08 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.