The Defensive Union of Allied Friendly States is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 7.908 billion AFS citizens enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 29.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The of AFS economy, worth 478 trillion AFS credits a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 60,476 AFS credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, bug burgers are extra crunchy, the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed, and crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Allied Friendly States's national animal is the shree, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Allied Friendly States is ranked 105,555^th in the world and 1,389^th in The North Pacific for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 11,138.08 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.