The Most Serene Republic of Esilondre is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by High Counciler Alkibiades with a fair hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 5.531 billion Esilondreans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elisia. The average income tax rate is 99.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Esilondrean economy, worth 950 trillion Golden Crystals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 171,857 Golden Crystals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every school is receiving a brand new eraser, soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued, school history books often refer to High Counciler Alkibiades as "that imperialist pig dog", and a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Esilondre's national animal is the Feniks, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Esilondre is ranked 17,522^nd in the world and 232^nd in the South Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 171,857.74 Standard Monetary Units.