The Kingdom of Aswick is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by King William Stonebridge with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 23.986 billion Aswickans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Winchester. The average income tax rate is 95.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Aswickian economy, worth a remarkable 2,825 trillion Aswickan Pounds a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 117,815 Aswickan Pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The general public only knows their favorite politician's first name, bowling teams spend more time looking at their phones than the pins, the recycled air in planes is nauseating, and it's illegal to be caught on tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aswick's national animal is the Kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aswick is ranked 13,717^th in the world and 6^th in Astyria for Most Cultured, scoring 100 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.