The Holy Green Woods of Ashrah is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Maraja Alara with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, hatred of cheese, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.432 billion Ashrahians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alabra. The average income tax rate is 99.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ashrahian economy, worth a remarkable 2,625 trillion Seys 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 impressive 181,901 Seys, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

When electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming, legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills, endangered species face obesity instead of extinction, and lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ashrah's national animal is the hawk, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ashrah is ranked 1,734^th in the world and 34^th in Forest for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 20,646.39 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.