The Militarist Republic of Aphudale is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Comrade Livia with an even hand, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.701 billion Aphudaleans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Plumamen. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Aphudalean economy, worth 256 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 150,909 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs, foreign envoys that want to visit Aphudale now have to navigate real minefields in addition to the political ones, police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints, and older citizens lament over the loss of law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aphudale's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aphudale is ranked 155,119^th in the world and 73^rd in Refugia for Most Conservative, scoring 57.92 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.