The United States of The Ancient World is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Matt Leaf with a fair hand, and renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 26.055 billion Ancient Worldians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trinity. The average income tax rate is 99.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ancient Worldian economy, worth a remarkable 5,269 trillion Shales a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 202,241 Shales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Constipated-looking politicians are uptight about potty mouths, hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region, literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, and anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Ancient World's national animal is the Boa Constrictor, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

The Ancient World is ranked 1,274^th in the world and 1^st in Icarus for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 76.62 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.