The Kingdom of Asteran is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Prime Minister Robert McCaskill with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, cynical population of 35.1 billion Asteris are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous 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 91.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Asteri economy, worth a remarkable 4,604 trillion pounds a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 131,174 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Patriotic citizens chant "there's only one Asteran" at foreigners, the number of judges has tripled in recent months, businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, and old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. 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 4,735^th in the world and 290^th in Balder for Least Corrupt Governments, with 95.13 percentage of bribes refused.