The Dominion of Amystan Bioterror Group 4 is a huge, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 809 million Amystan Bioterror Group 4ians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Amystan Bioterror Group 4ian economy, worth 17.4 trillion Intimate Cuddles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 21,472 Intimate Cuddles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to make racist remarks in public, military spending recently hit a new high, one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber, and traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Amystan Bioterror Group 4's national animal is the Tentacle, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Amystan Bioterror Group 4 is ranked 279,457^th in the world and 10,518^th in Balder for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -11.31 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.