The Republic of Astravican Peoples Navy 4 is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The democratic population of 169 million Astravican Peoples Navy 4ians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 71.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Astravican Peoples Navy 4ian economy, worth 1.14 trillion bitcoins 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 Arms Manufacturing and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 6,772 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astravican Peoples Navy 4's national animal is the sheep, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Astravican Peoples Navy 4 is ranked 244,139^th in the world and 4,125^th in Artificial Solar System for Highest Food Quality, scoring 8.04 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.