The Colony of Atoraria Islands is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 14.297 billion Atoraria Islanders enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and International Aid. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.2%.

The very strong Atorarian economy, worth 803 trillion scudoes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 56,208 scudoes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 162,784 per year while the poor average 15,380, a ratio of 10.6 to 1.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Atoraria Islands's national animal is the blue whale, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans.

Atoraria Islands is ranked 29,147^th in the world and 1^st in Northwest Isles for Most Primitive, scoring 71.41 on the Scary Big Number Scale.