The Kingdom of Asteran is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Robert McCaskill with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 34.518 billion Asteris 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirano. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Asteri economy, worth a remarkable 4,520 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 130,958 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods", the government forces Asteris to eat their vegetables, death is nobody's business, and religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds. Crime is totally unknown. Asteran's national animal is the lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Church of Asteran.

Asteran is ranked 19,944^th in the world and 846^th in Balder for Largest Information Technology Sector, scoring 21,531.12 on the Fann-Boi Productivity Index.