The Empire of Ashley Cooper is a titanic, safe nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The quiet, industrious population of 10.791 billion Ashley Cooperians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 33.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Ashley Cooperian economy, worth 94.4 trillion betales a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 8,745 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Deer is one of the most popular forenames in Ashley Cooper, organ donation rates have hit a new low, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and gambling is outlawed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ashley Cooper's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ashley Cooper is ranked 183,458^th in the world and 1^st in the Republic of United States for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 711.22 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.