The Holy Federation of Azstaria is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by The Emperor with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 6.977 billion Azstarians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Industry, Law & Order, and Education are also considered important, while Environment and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astartes. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Azstarian economy, worth a remarkable 4,232 trillion Marbles 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, 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 a breathtaking 606,570 Marbles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework, 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists, wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities, and not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azstaria's national animal is the Lion and Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Imperial Cult.

Azstaria is ranked 242^nd in the world and 3^rd in the Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 26,651.3 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.