The Kingdom of Aswick is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by King William Stonebridge with an even hand, and renowned for its public floggings, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 19.272 billion Aswickans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Winchester. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Aswickian economy, worth a remarkable 2,283 trillion Aswickan Pounds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 118,482 Aswickan Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements, children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, and acute politicians deride opposition members for being obtuse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aswick's national animal is the Kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aswick is ranked 3,826^th in the world and 3^rd in Astyria for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,113.28 on the Clooney Contribution Index.