The Allied States of Euthanising is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Henrik Jenssen with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, keen interest in outer space, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.636 billion Euthanisians 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 Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Needle City. The average income tax rate is 50.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Euthanisian economy, worth 882 trillion ᦊeaths 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Retail, and Information Technology. 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 an impressive 132,980 ᦊeaths, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, the state-controlled media salutes those about to spy, and lion-reed-vulture-hand-reed-mouth is how Henrik Jenssen is spelt now. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Euthanising's national animal is the needle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Euthanising is ranked 78,575^th in the world and 337^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 1,263.29 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.