The Coffee Brewing Nation of Ackles is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Barry Starr with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.455 billion Acklesians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Espresso. The average income tax rate is 45.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Acklesian economy, worth 41.4 trillion coffee beans a year, is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 28,441 coffee beans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soldiers with colourful mohawks make themselves perfect targets for snipers, private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button, the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable, and Max Barry is this year's Miss Ackles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ackles's national animal is the Asian Palm Civet, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Coffeeism.

Ackles is ranked 191,542^nd in the world and 51^st in New Republic Charter for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 1,154.37 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.