The Martial Republic of Ascoobis is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Generalissimo Reyno Nicholas with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, humorless population of 18.558 billion Ascoobians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darkmount. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Ascoobian economy, worth a remarkable 4,493 trillion Credits 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 242,143 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School history books often refer to Generalissimo Reyno Nicholas as "that imperialist pig dog", children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume, and politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ascoobis's national animal is the Golden Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Secularism.

Ascoobis is ranked 3,406^th in the world and 13^th in The Free Nations Region for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100.36 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.