The Royal Empire of Ajarja is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Agathangelos XI Warr with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and zero percent divorce rate. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 21.165 billion Ajarjans 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."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 78.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Ajarjan economy, worth a remarkable 1,757 trillion Shuyurrus a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 83,017 Shuyurrus, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.6 times as much as the poorest.

New homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars, children must make a homemade spinach and ricotta rotolo by high school or be held back, dozens of viewers tune in weekly to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, and on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ajarja's national animal is the penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is hinduism.

Ajarja is ranked 257,407^th in the world and 116^th in Mitteleuropa for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -38.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.