The Empire of Ostela-Aswines is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its closed borders, parental licensing program, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 365 million Ostela-Aswinians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ostela. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.4%.

The strong Ostela-Aswinian economy, worth 28.5 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,194 Dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 255,595 per year while the poor average 17,981, a ratio of 14.2 to 1.

All children's clothes come in only cream and off-white to prevent offense, good-looking doctors are obliged by law to give foot rubs to Leader, the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations, and families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ostela-Aswines's national animal is the Wahlberg's Eagle, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Ostela-Aswines is ranked 251,666^th in the world and 9,571^st in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -57.43 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.