The Galactic Empire of Afria Thebel is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Franciotto Orsini with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.498 billion Afria Thebelians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bawshar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Afria Thebelian economy, worth a remarkable 3,425 trillion Drachmaes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 403,150 Drachmaes, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories', an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse, the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months, and the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afria Thebel's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Western Rite Orthodoxy.

Afria Thebel is ranked 2,496^th in the world and 41^st in The North Pacific for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 82,364.88 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.