The Empire of Asfara is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, keen interest in outer space, and national health service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 930 million Asfarans 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Medina. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Asfaran economy, worth 104 trillion Envers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 111,846 Envers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 452,570 per year while the poor average 18,424, a ratio of 24.6 to 1.

Textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts, Leader has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, and UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asfara's national animal is the Arabian Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Asfara is ranked 48,647^th in the world and 1^st in The Antiquity of Zehrah for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 5,233.05 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.