The Empire of Asfara is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Altair Ibn Al Asfar with an iron fist, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, aversion to nipples, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 1.025 billion Asfarans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Medina. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 33.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Asfaran economy, worth 115 trillion Envers a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 112,302 Envers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 461,868 per year while the poor average 18,003, a ratio of 25.7 to 1.

Running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, and edutainment video games are taking Asfara's students to the next level. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asfara's national animal is the Arabian Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

Asfara is ranked 72,805^th in the world and 4,484^th in Balder for Lowest Crime Rates, with 71.52 law-abiding acts per hour.