The Sasquatch Guardian of Bran Astor is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Bran Astor with a fair hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, pith helmet sales, and parental licensing program. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.698 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 government prioritizes Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wahkiakum TSR. The average income tax rate is 42.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Astorian economy, worth 648 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 138,041 dentaliums, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, and basic multiplication is all you need to know to have a child. 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 135,250^th in the world and 6,106^th in the West Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 49.01 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.