The Guitarist of Aether Ghoul is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Aether with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The cynical, devout population of 6.831 billion Aether Ghoulians 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 medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Industry, and Administration are also considered important. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Ministry. The average income tax rate is 49.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Aether Ghoulian economy, worth 622 trillion papas 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 Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. 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 91,185 papas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want, the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, and building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aether Ghoul's national animal is the papa, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aether Ghoul is ranked 102,851^st in the world and 233^rd in The Blades for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 2,232.98 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.