The Militarist Republic of Aphudale is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Comrade Livia with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.795 billion Aphudaleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plumamen. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Aphudalean economy, worth 279 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 155,813 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents, dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375, and deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aphudale's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aphudale is ranked 323,720^th in the world and 321^st in Refugia for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.1 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.