The Royal Empire of Ajarja is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Emperor Agathangelos XI Warr with an iron fist, and remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 26.224 billion Ajarjans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 76.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ajarjan economy, worth a remarkable 2,598 trillion Shuyurrus 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, quite specialized black market in Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. 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 99,104 Shuyurrus, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Ajarjan Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation, "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows, the nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents, and space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ajarja's national animal is the penguin, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is hinduism.

Ajarja is ranked 65,579^th in the world and 33^rd in Mitteleuropa for Highest Average Incomes, with 99,104.97 Standard Monetary Units.