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The Vizier of Asendavia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Hjalmar XVIII with an iron fist, and notable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, frequent executions, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.025 billion Asendavians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, with Healthcare, Education, and Industry also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Strömhärad. The average income tax rate is 96.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Asendavian economy, worth a remarkable 4,879 trillion Jade Nudoes 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, 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 amazing 270,733 Jade Nudoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

The dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu, few that venture into government archives are ever seen again, high-tech infantry rifles automatically reload when the soldier shoots outside the screen of their helmet HUD, and ghost regiments exist only on paper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Asendavia's national animal is the Gyoruna, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Ademarism.

Asendavia is ranked 121,613^th in the world and 1,924^th in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,485.62 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.