The Queen's State of Fort Astoria is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, complete lack of public education, and absence of drug laws. The hard-working, cynical population of 17.317 billion Fort Astorians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, with Welfare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.4%.

The very strong Fort Astorian economy, worth 660 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 38,115 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 259,135 per year while the poor average 2,047, a ratio of 126 to 1.

Surveillance cameras are banned and elections have been outlawed. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Fort Astoria's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Fort Astoria is ranked 290,318^th in the world and 8^th in Seri Begawan for Lowest Crime Rates, with 29.84 law-abiding acts per hour.