The Galactic Empire of Afria Thebel is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Franciotto Orsini with an iron fist, and notable for its ubiquitous missile silos, pith helmet sales, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 8.508 billion Afria Thebelians 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bawshar. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Afria Thebelian economy, worth a remarkable 3,450 trillion Drachmaes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 405,568 Drachmaes, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

Many aides in Franciotto Orsini's office are known to be serial jaywalkers, bris parties are all the rage, people are offered free trials to go to trial, and most barbers are also surgeons. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afria Thebel's national animal is the falcon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Western Rite Orthodoxy.

Afria Thebel is ranked 37,685^th in the world and 571^st in The North Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 4,337.83 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.