The Federation of Austrus is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Captain Spock with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and unlimited-speed roads. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.227 billion Austrusians 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 relatively small, well-organized government prioritizes Law & Order, although Defense is also considered important, while Environment and Public Transport are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Austrus City. The average income tax rate is 12.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Austrusian economy, worth 72.5 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Gambling, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,575 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up, citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities, the government spends millions of Dollars every year prosecuting spammers, and research into 'designer babies' is banned. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Austrus's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Austrus is ranked 101,128^th in the world and 2,170^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Primitive, scoring -16.88 on the Scary Big Number Scale.