The Kingdom of Athwart the Void is a mammoth, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 7.793 billion Athwart the Voidians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 39.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Athwart the Voidian economy, worth 70.3 trillion rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Retail, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 9,018 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Harry Potter books are banned, surveillance cameras are banned, tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread, and male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Athwart the Void's national animal is the fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Athwart the Void is ranked 226,586^th in the world and 418^th in Prison for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 249.89 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.