The Always Alive of Angeloid Astraea is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Joy with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 14.518 billion Angeloids are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astraea City. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient an Angeloid economy, worth 554 trillion Seeds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 38,201 Seeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, the World Always Alive Games have been won again by Angeloid Astraea as no other country cares enough to compete, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, and a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Angeloid Astraea's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Angeloid Astraea is ranked 166,785^th in the world and 6,435^th in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 245.4 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.