The Empire of Trastal is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Frederik Kare with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 4.222 billion Trastilians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Valkteria. The average income tax rate is 32.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Trastilian economy, worth 419 trillion Shylliðs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 99,322 Shylliðs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Children who drop their ice cream are fined for littering, psychological disorders are a taboo subject, heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual, and the nation won three wars against Brancaland this weekend. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Trastal's national animal is the Otter, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Trastal is ranked 30,806^th in the world and 1,663^rd in Lazarus for Most Secular, with 32.37 Atheism Rate.