The Confederation of Askira is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Chancellor Ishaan Chaye with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 26.894 billion Askirans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kasni. The average income tax rate is 83.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Askiran economy, worth a remarkable 2,213 trillion Federal Guilders a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Average income is 82,295 Federal Guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

All writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves, politicians' financial records are locked up tighter than the nation's Federal Guilder reserves, the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh, and Askirans caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Askira's national animal is the Ring-tailed Lemur, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Church of the Unified Atomic Vision.

Askira is ranked 54,810^th in the world and 328^th in Europe for Most Patriotic, with 29.61 flags saluted per person per day.