The Greatest Serene Republic of The Astral Mandate is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Ane Seppänen with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.976 billion Astralites are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rigel. The average income tax rate is 91.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Astralan economy, worth 426 trillion Sigil Tokens a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,267 Sigil Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist, and many suspect the government "doth protest too much" with their curiously specific denials of conspiracy theories. Crime is totally unknown. The Astral Mandate's national animal is the Firefly, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Astral Mandate is ranked 288,278^th in the world and 10^th in Beyond the Horizon for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -15.38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.