The Confederation of Inner Mations Aststan is a titanic, efficient nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 19.897 billion Inner Mations Aststanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Orley. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Inner Mations Aststanian economy, worth a remarkable 4,790 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is an amazing 240,772 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit, there are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices, and spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Inner Mations Aststan's national animal is the turtle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Inner Mations Aststan is ranked 1,355^th in the world and 2^nd in Anteria for Most Cultured, scoring 320 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.