The Community of Asmoedea is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 871 million Asmoedeans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Asmoedean economy, worth 26.3 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 30,179 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech, obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals, the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Leader to meetings with foreign heads of state. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asmoedea's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Asmoedea is ranked 264,762^nd in the world and 1,062^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 1.01 flags saluted per person per day.