The People's Republic of Atsirnya is a large, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 88 million Atsirnyans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 66.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Atsirnyan economy, worth 983 billion Skars 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 11,171 Skars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Vote-counting is replacing kitchen patrol as the least glamorous army work, male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed, graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation', and school uniforms are compulsory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Atsirnya's national animal is the Garuda, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Atsirnya is ranked 270,096^th in the world and 5,050^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -9.27 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.