The Queendom of Astrun is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Ada Rhyll with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, sprawling nuclear power plants, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.236 billion Astrese are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The City of a Million Pigeons. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Astrese economy, worth 665 trillion serrans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 157,101 serrans, with the richest citizens earning 8.4 times as much as the poorest.

Scholars are leaving the country at an alarming rate, cleaners are very careful not to bump into the big red button on Ada Rhyll's desk, the government invades its allies more than its enemies, and citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Astrun's national animal is the markhor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Rabbitism.

Astrun is ranked 103,132^nd in the world and 12^th in The Axis of Evil for Largest Populations, with 4.24 billion capita.