The Sultanate of Ashar is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Sultan Muhammad V with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 25.618 billion Asharians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Port Hammad. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Asharian economy, worth a remarkable 3,110 trillion Dinars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,399 Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's space program is doxxing the planet, wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations", forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, and Big Brother is still watching even when your big brother is dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ashar's national animal is the Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Ashar is ranked 24,276^th in the world and 3^rd in Esamir for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 280.23 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.