The Kingdom of Austain is a huge, orderly nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 588 million Austainians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Slonoa. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.1%.

The very strong Austainian economy, worth 57.8 trillion Royal Sovereigns a year, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 98,242 Royal Sovereigns, with the richest citizens earning 7.6 times as much as the poorest.

Slonoa's main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight, relationships often break down when doctors tell couples they are genetically incompatible, strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government, and dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Austain's national animal is the Lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Austain is ranked 93,057^th in the world and 2,558^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.