The Republic of The Aftonian Republic is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, digital currency, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 238 million Aftonian Republics are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The tiny government prioritizes Defense, with Industry, Law & Order, and Administration also on the agenda, while Environment and International Aid are ignored. The average income tax rate is 8.5%.

The powerhouse Aftonian Republician economy, worth 22.1 trillion Aftonian Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 93,064 Aftonian Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

Sentient AIs face their watery graves with a fixed smile, a cat may look at a king and a dude can look at an ass, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and a stitch in time could see you serving nine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Aftonian Republic's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

The Aftonian Republic is ranked 244,559^th in the world and 8^th in PSUSH for Largest Populations, with 238 million capita.