The People's Republic of Astrbot is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by SS with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.231 billion Astrbotians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astrbot city. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.4%.

The all-consuming Astrbotian economy, worth 90.4 trillion Equits a year, is dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 73,455 Equits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 211,021 per year while the poor average 20,328, a ratio of 10.4 to 1.

The police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared', students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50, the police double as repo men, and terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astrbot's national animal is the cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Hindu.

Astrbot is ranked 264,991^st in the world and 54^th in kingdom of Greater Esteriae for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 7.45 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.