The Empire of Austerran is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 564 million Austerrans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Wieithofen. The average income tax rate is 12.9%.

The very strong Austerranian economy, worth 38.1 trillion Austerran Kroners a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 67,547 Austerran Kroners, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase, Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping, blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love, and corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Austerran's national animal is the Holy Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Austerran is ranked 96,335^th in the world and 2^nd in World of Lostoria for Most Primitive, scoring 11.46 on the Scary Big Number Scale.