The Astral Choir of Azzagrat is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Song of the Ancient Stars with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, ritual sacrifices, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.097 billion Tehomot are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Suf. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Azzagratite economy, worth a remarkable 1,019 trillion Favors a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,683 Favors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year, many friends and relatives of Song of the Ancient Stars have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government, and it's illegal to be caught on tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Azzagrat's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Dream.

Azzagrat is ranked 280,959^th in the world and 20^th in Kattera Sector for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -12.4 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.