The Constitutional Monarchy of Assarah is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 858 million Assarahians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of L'Assah. The average income tax rate is 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Assarahian economy, worth 25.5 trillion Lipotoes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is 29,761 Lipotoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, the nation is relieved that all of the recent madness has finally come to an end, hordes of tourists are ruining the environment, and the banshee wail foretells skies of death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Assarah's national animal is the chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Assarah is ranked 70,580^th in the world and 3^rd in International Free Trade Association for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,754.1 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.