The Queendom of Astrun is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ada Rhyll with an iron fist, and remarkable for its feral children, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.098 billion Astrese 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Administration, Law & Order, and Industry are also considered important, while Environment and Education receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The City of a Million Pigeons. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Astrese economy, worth a remarkable 1,033 trillion serrans 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. 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 169,553 serrans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 630,174 per year while the poor average 32,054, a ratio of 19.7 to 1.

Citizens who become homeless are immediately executed, mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them, the military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies, and the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Astrun's national animal is the markhor, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Rabbitism.

Astrun is ranked 286,418^th in the world and 16^th in The Axis of Evil for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3.75 pounds of wildlife per square mile.