The Dictatorship of Disea Asterla is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by God King Zane Cross with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.6 billion Grandis 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 Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Monet. The average income tax rate is 98.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Disea Asterlan economy, worth a remarkable 4,531 trillion Vralles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 390,622 Vralles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,115,190 per year while the poor average 109,046, a ratio of 10.2 to 1.

Laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts, the sound of wooden legs echo throughout Disea Asterla after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax, Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested, and mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Disea Asterla's national animal is the cobra, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Crossism.

Disea Asterla is ranked 281,471^st in the world and 20^th in The Allied States for Most Primitive, scoring -362.12 on the Scary Big Number Scale.