The Grand Duchy of Astograth is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Grand Duke Gaxan with an iron fist, and renowned for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 34.204 billion Astograthians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rumiatzi. The average income tax rate is 98.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Astograthian economy, worth a remarkable 6,072 trillion Dirus a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 177,548 Dirus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Milk often tastes of pea, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, parents who try to organize playdates for their kids have police drop through their ceilings, and theories that hold water are considered to have failed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astograth's national animal is the Lehoi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Astograthiko Echebakarra.

Astograth is ranked 297,320^th in the world and 60^th in Rushmore for Most Politically Free, scoring 9.71 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.