The Incorporated States of Asgue is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 416 million Asguergers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 54.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Asgue economy, worth 16.9 trillion bits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,659 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions, and one does not simply walk into the tundra. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asgue's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Asgue is ranked 156,919^th in the world and 48^th in Rosaria for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 377.69 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.