The Industrial Dictatorship of Astraeos is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Grigor Malenkov with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 5.391 billion Astraeosians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gaius. The average income tax rate is 66.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Astraeosian economy, worth a remarkable 1,046 trillion Legionars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 194,177 Legionars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

It is universally agreed that the first 31 issues are the only ones with humor and charm (Astraeos has found 2 easter eggs), no one gossips with Grigor Malenkov during diplomatic summits, citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals, and wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Astraeos's national animal is the Mountain Ram, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Religion is fiercely suppressed.

Astraeos is ranked 48,391^st in the world and 5^th in World of Lostoria for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 3,759.4 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.