The Phantasm of Afi-Aftos is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by El Guapo with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, flagrant waste-dumping, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 38.766 billion Afi-Aftosians 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 is primarily concerned with Industry, with Administration and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dreck City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 81.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Afi-Aftosian economy, worth a remarkable 7,621 trillion Fishterous Correlations 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, highly specialized black market in 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 196,595 Fishterous Correlations, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 698,350 per year while the poor average 39,884, a ratio of 17.5 to 1.

Bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity, residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis, and from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Afi-Aftos. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Afi-Aftos's national animal is the Vermicious Knid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Dudeism.

Afi-Aftos is ranked 4^th in the world and 1^st in Fredonia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 43,758.37 on the Gilded Widget Scale.