The Missing letter of Afghan Stan is a titanic, safe nation, remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed population of 13.995 billion Afghan Stanians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stan. The average income tax rate is 46.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Afghan Stanian economy, worth 458 trillion deniers 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 a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Tourism, Trout Farming, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 32,734 deniers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's told that love often manifests itself through homicidal four-lettered litanies, the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death, and Leader has just been declared ruler of Afghan Stan in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afghan Stan's national animal is the horse.

Afghan Stan is ranked 278,488^th in the world and 45^th in Gypsy Lands for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 2,303.15 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.