The State of Ashfatti is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jerkins Agovabula with an even hand, and notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed population of 2.426 billion Ashfattians 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 Defense, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tokugawaville. The average income tax rate is 54.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ashfattian economy, worth 56.6 trillion Hehes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is 23,327 Hehes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, Jerkins Agovabula has just been declared ruler of Ashfatti in an international press conference, and Ashfatti has designated Tokugawaville as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ashfatti's national animal is the Mmm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ashfatti is ranked 252,168^th in the world and 6^th in Eyanfaonie for Smartest Citizens, with 21.7 quips per hour.