The Borderlands of AC DC is a mammoth, cultured nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avant-garde cinema, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.352 billion AC DCians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sydney. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50.0%.

The frighteningly efficient AC DCian economy, worth 895 trillion songs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 107,188 songs, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 382,789 per year while the poor average 21,568, a ratio of 17.7 to 1.

Corruption is a game of two halves, descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true, online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for AC DC, and mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. AC DC's national animal is the hellbender lizard, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

AC DC is ranked 231,655^th in the world and 18^th in Australia for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -2.7 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.