The Asanuma Shintaro of AsaShin is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Shintaro Asanuma with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, suspicion of poets, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.456 billion Asanuma Shintaros are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Iwate. The average income tax rate is 46.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Asanuma Shintaro economy, worth 42.0 trillion dandelions 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 black market in Pizza Delivery, Furniture Restoration, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 17,108 dandelions, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes, all the playground's a stage for Asanuma Shintaro schoolchildren, nations that kill an Asanuma Shintaro can expect a strongly worded letter, and thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. AsaShin's national animal is the Samatoki, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Voice Acting.

AsaShin is ranked 299,932^nd in the world and 12^th in Beating Brian Up Gang for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 1,041.57 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.