The Grand Duchy of Astograth is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Duke Gaxan with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 28.83 billion Astograthians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rumiatzi. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Astograthian economy, worth a remarkable 4,493 trillion Dirus a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 155,844 Dirus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances, traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers, the Astograthian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, and faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astograth's national animal is the Lehoi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Astograthiko Echebakarra.

Astograth is ranked 4,355^th in the world and 5^th in Rushmore for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 2,920.32 on the Clooney Contribution Index.