The Constitutional Republic of Aphielo is a massive, genial nation, ruled by President Noei with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, ubiquitous missile silos, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.053 billion Aphielans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leonihdae. The average income tax rate is 75.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aphielan economy, worth 377 trillion traeds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 93,156 traeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

There's more than one way to skin a diplomat, international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses, the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end, and soldiers are equipped with multi-million traed battlesuits. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aphielo's national animal is the eihnuma, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Aphielo is ranked 28,121^st in the world and 37^th in International Democratic Union for Most Cultured, scoring 83 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.