The Industrial Dictatorship of Astraeos is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Maxim Petrovich with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, strictly enforced bedtime, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 983 million Astraeosians 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, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gaius. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.7%.

The powerhouse Astraeosian economy, worth 136 trillion Legionareses 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. 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 138,970 Legionareses, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 561,193 per year while the poor average 22,969, a ratio of 24.4 to 1.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, children often kick Mountain Rams for amusement, one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man, and aides are afraid to ask if Maxim Petrovich wants a cup of tea or coffee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astraeos's national animal is the Mountain Ram, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Astraeos is ranked 94,178^th in the world and 6^th in World of Lostoria for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,287.35 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.