The Federation of Augustja is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 158 million Augustjanis are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 35.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Augustjan economy, worth 6.16 trillion Pausts a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,998 Pausts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Augustjan language, anti-tourism militias patrol the borders, and women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Augustja's national animal is the Deer, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Augustja is ranked 223,608^th in the world and 186^th in Karma for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -5.48 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.