The Federation of Augustja is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 253 million Augustjanis are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 39.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Augustjan economy, worth 10.2 trillion Pausts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 40,321 Pausts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Augustjan language, anti-tourism militias patrol the borders, and women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Augustja's national animal is the Deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Augustja is ranked 96,075^th in the world and 67^th in Karma for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 2,673.25 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.