The Republic of Aireside is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its free-roaming dinosaurs, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 166 million Airesiders 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 Administration, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 35.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Airesidean economy, worth 7.87 trillion Wyes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 47,381 Wyes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Troublemakers boast about how many times they have to visit their therapist, cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling, prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows, and the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Aireside's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Aireside is ranked 90,856^th in the world and 3,290^th in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 77 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.