The Queendom of Akashas is a very large, orderly nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, devout population of 167 million Akashasians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Spirituality. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Akashasian economy, worth 6.44 trillion Snitties a year, is quite specialized and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,577 Snitties, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Akashas City has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra, the government is spending millions on lawyers' fees trying to get Leader off a murder charge, schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes", and the government loves seeing the little people fight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Akashas's national animal is the Naga, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Akashas is ranked 45,485^th in the world and 1^st in Midworld for Safest, scoring 104.09 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.