The Empire of Imperial Asteria is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Cyber with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.826 billion Imperial Asterians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astera. The average income tax rate is 64.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Imperial Asterian economy, worth 86.1 trillion Yen a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,125 Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers, euthanasia is illegal, diplomacy is a foreign concept to Imperial Asterians, and citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Imperial Asteria's national animal is the cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cyberism.

Imperial Asteria is ranked 37,977^th in the world and 1,914^th in Balder for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 6,211.29 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.