The Merciful Harbinger of Astorian Ambis is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Archangel Ambis with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, smutty television, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate, devout population of 1.28 billion Astorian Ambisians 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, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Radiant City. The average income tax rate is 30.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Astorian Ambisian economy, worth 60.7 trillion Loyalties a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Cheese Exports, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,398 Loyalties, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people, and government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astorian Ambis's national animal is the The Black Dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The Enlightened Order.

Astorian Ambis is ranked 198,088^th in the world and 75^th in Astoria for Largest Populations, with 1.28 billion capita.