The Federal Republic of Aselon is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Whittman with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 793 million Aselonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Harmony. The average income tax rate is 64.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aselonian economy, worth 99.1 trillion Astmarks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 125,022 Astmarks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers, the government is spending billions of taxpayer Astmarks to support "struggling" industries, real power lies not in the debating room but with those who decide what is debated, and strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aselon's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aselon is ranked 226,056^th in the world and 1,963^rd in the West Pacific for Most Extreme, scoring 10.99 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.