The Protectorate of Ashley is a titanic, genial nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons. The compassionate population of 20.959 billion Ashleyians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Healthcare, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 22.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Ashleyian economy, worth 644 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Pizza Delivery, Basket Weaving, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 30,728 Shiny Green Things, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Voting is compulsory, gambling is outlawed, the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles, and flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys. Crime is relatively low. Ashley's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ashley is ranked 240,765^th in the world and 151^st in Jenny for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.48 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.