The People's Socialist Republic of The Achterhoek is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chairman Daan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, pith helmet sales, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 14.412 billion Achterhoekers are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lochem. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Achterhoekian economy, worth a remarkable 2,762 trillion People's Guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 191,666 People's Guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children, annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, and park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Achterhoek's national animal is the Deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Achterhoek is ranked 60,041^st in the world and 347^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 23.47 flags saluted per person per day.