The Kingdom of Asteran is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prime Minister Robert McCaskill with an iron fist, and remarkable for its daily referendums, smutty television, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cynical population of 34.538 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 Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kirano. The average income tax rate is 90.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Asteri economy, worth a remarkable 4,515 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 130,743 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government forces Asteris to eat their vegetables, death is nobody's business, religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds, and Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to Kirano to enjoy their national art. 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 303,082^nd in the world and 11,806^th in Balder for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 18.27 on the Bus Surprisal Index.