The Ecclesiastical Frontierist of Askrieg is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Keyser Söze with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, ritual sacrifices, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.314 billion Askriegs are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Industry and Law & Order are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aurora City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Askriegian economy, worth 662 trillion bucks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 124,667 bucks, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy, the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form, death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games, and children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary. Crime is a problem. Askrieg's national animal is the rat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Capitalism.

Askrieg is ranked 120,727^th in the world and 342^nd in Talonia for Most Developed, scoring 58 on the Human Development Index.