The Sasquatch Guardian of Bran Astor is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Bran Astor with a fair hand, and notable for its daily referendums, ban on automobiles, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.369 billion Astorians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Healthcare, and Industry also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Victoria. The average income tax rate is 38.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Astorian economy, worth 462 trillion dentaliums a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 137,181 dentaliums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy, the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", and the arms industry is strictly regulated. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Bran Astor's national animal is the Sasquatch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnostic Creationists.

Bran Astor is ranked 125,918^th in the world and 4,622^nd in Lazarus for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry, scoring -4.9 on the Tasmanian Pulp Environmental Export Index.