The Pink Holy Lucky Christmas of Astraeos is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Santa Claus with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, anti-smoking policies, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.309 billion Astraeosians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Industry are also considered important, while Welfare and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yggdrassil. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Astraeosian economy, worth 393 trillion Candy Cane Gold Bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 170,257 Candy Cane Gold Bars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 517,738 per year while the poor average 43,482, a ratio of 11.9 to 1.

Fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets, the AAF has poured billions of Candy Cane Gold Bars into anti-spaceship defenses to protect Astraeos against outsiders (Astraeos has found 1 easter egg), war criminals are given full state funerals, and the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astraeos's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Athyism.

Astraeos is ranked 303,897^th in the world and 9^th in World of Lostoria for Largest Basket Weaving Sector, scoring -8.53 on the Hickory Productivity Index.