The United States of Amnul is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The Patrician with a fair hand, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.356 billion Amnulians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ankh-Morpork. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Amnulian economy, worth 150 trillion Bits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 111,194 Bits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 486,203 per year while the poor average 16,042, a ratio of 30.3 to 1.

Purple armbands are being issued to Violetists for ease of identification, the nation's soldiers are considered the best-dressed in Sol System, spontaneous nocturnal decapitation is considered 'death by natural causes' for enemies of Amnul, and freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amnul's national animal is the Opium Bird, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is War.

Amnul is ranked 227,908^th in the world and 1^st in Sol System for Largest Populations, with 1.36 billion capita.