The Snowy Lands of Afeiste is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Afeisti Federal Council with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.336 billion Afeisti love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kaśo. The average income tax rate is 68.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Afeisti economy, worth 32.1 trillion Detaoyes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Cheese Exports, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,060 Detaoyes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway, 'Totally Not Partisan News' is a line item on the government budget, and airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afeiste's national animal is the Carcajou, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Amadism.

Afeiste is ranked 195,967^th in the world and 149^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 56.68 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.