The Republic of Akutama is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Ash Benteen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, soft-spoken computers, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.273 billion Akutamen are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Akutama City. The average income tax rate is 54.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Akutaman economy, worth 537 trillion Sliding Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 64,937 Sliding Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat, the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth, the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone, and both criminals and civilians are DOA. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Akutama's national animal is the Amanojaku, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Graph.

Akutama is ranked 246,175^th in the world and 11^th in The Slide Countries for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.