The Republic of Abserdia is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Great Cosmic Leader with an even hand, and renowned for its smutty television, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, humorless population of 21.265 billion Abserdians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ankura. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Abserdian economy, worth a remarkable 3,020 trillion Benjamins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 142,031 Benjamins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The children of Abserdia are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence, kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents, the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region, and authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Abserdia's national animal is the Pangolin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Celestialism.

Abserdia is ranked 8,832^nd in the world and 2^nd in Alyr for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 10,103.37 on the Gilded Widget Scale.