The Phantasm of Afi-Aftos is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Whoop Dee Whoop with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 42.739 billion Afi-Aftosians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Administration and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Loompaland. The average income tax rate is 89.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Afi-Aftosian economy, worth an astonishing 10,002 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 Gambling. 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 234,025 Fishterous Correlations, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens can't decide whether to be proud or horrified by the country's colonial history, the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions, nude art is becoming wildly popular, and a government program is underway to revitalize Afi-Aftos's beaches. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Afi-Aftos's national animal is the Vermicious Knid, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Dudeism.

Afi-Aftos is ranked 275,642^nd in the world and 9^th in Fredonia for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -25.92 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.