The Phantasm of Afi-Aftos is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Whoop Dee Whoop with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, deadly medical pandemics, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 47.683 billion Afi-Aftosians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Loompaland. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Afi-Aftosian economy, worth an astonishing 12,418 trillion Fishterous Correlations 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 Uranium Mining, Retail, Furniture Restoration, and Basket Weaving. 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 260,440 Fishterous Correlations, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have been reduced to using duct tape instead of handcuffs following further cutbacks, the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered, the nation's biggest export is stupidity, and people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Afi-Aftos's national animal is the Vermicious Knid, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Dudeism.

Afi-Aftos is ranked 357^th in the world and 1^st in Fredonia for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 20,351.74 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.