The Apolitical Soldier-State of Atsuria is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by General-Captain Kalervo Kailas with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, national health service, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 28.703 billion Citizens are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Command Fortress City Vauraus. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient a Citizen economy, worth a remarkable 3,618 trillion Vekselis a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,053 Vekselis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

General-Captain Kalervo Kailas's new android secretary is the latest media darling, getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults, the ongoing space elevator construction project has elevated the national debt to all new levels, and every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Atsuria's national animal is the Karhu, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Church of the Seven Scepters.

Atsuria is ranked 3,638^th in the world and 1^st in Atsuria and friends for Nicest Citizens, with 53.94 average smiles per day.