The Defenders of the Nine Realms of Aesir is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by The Allfather with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 9.031 billion Aesiriis are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Asgard. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.1%.

The strong Aesirian economy, worth 577 trillion Mjöðrs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 63,987 Mjöðrs, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 395,926 per year while the poor average 4,469, a ratio of 88.6 to 1.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, employers may fire workers without giving any reason, all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Asgard, and The Allfather has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Aesir's national animal is the Slíðrugtanni, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Aesir is ranked 160,732^nd in the world and 2^nd in Nine Realms for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.