The Sultanate of Afarionadia is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its national health service, hatred of cheese, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 1.186 billion Afarionadians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 70.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Afarionadian economy, worth 153 trillion dinars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an impressive 129,806 dinars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Anti-vacs campaigners claim the government is inserting weird devices into their bodies, libraries are bulldozed to make way for internet cafés, nothing says "moving forward" like sitting in traffic for eight hours, and the roundel of the Afarionadian Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afarionadia's national animal is the phoenix, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Afarionadia is ranked 22,960^th in the world and 9^th in Edoca for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 288.18 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.