The Galactic Empire of Afria Thebel is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Franciotto Orsini with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, infamous sell-swords, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 8.449 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 Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bawshar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 41.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Afria Thebelian economy, worth a remarkable 3,403 trillion Drachmaes a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 402,802 Drachmaes, with the richest citizens earning 6.6 times as much as the poorest.

Creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices, the legal system for the political class is completely separate from the one for normal citizens, and popular political cartoonists are thrown in jail for inciting dissent. 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 35,860^th in the world and 552^nd in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,305.87 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.