The Socialist Republic of The American Continentes is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Marxist Liberation Party with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 9.753 billion Greater Americans are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nueva Republica. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Greater American economy, worth a remarkable 2,143 trillion Libertadors 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Trout Farming. Average income is an amazing 219,828 Libertadors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding The American Continentes, and the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The American Continentes's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The American Continentes is ranked 272,552^nd in the world and 59^th in The Internationale for Most Patriotic, with 0.7 flags saluted per person per day.