The Republic of Asarana is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Toni King with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate population of 1.63 billion Asaranans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ezhido. The average income tax rate is 85.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Asaranan economy, worth 237 trillion Asas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 145,615 Asas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Strategic bombers are being converted into preschools, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and older AIs regularly threaten to send newer generation AIs to Reform Programming if caught rounding up instead of down. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asarana's national animal is the Two-horned Unicorn, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Asarana is ranked 8,731^st in the world and 209^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 435.85 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.