The Glistening Lavender Fields of Espeonica is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 22.695 billion Espeonicans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Espeonica City. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Espeonican economy, worth a remarkable 2,561 trillion spoons a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,883 spoons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grinding bureaucracy has the international wheels of justice turning slowly, airport announcements inform passengers that flights have been delayed because pilots are having afternoon naps, code enforcement officers circle wealthy Espeonicans like vultures, and all you have to do is pray to get into Espeonica. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Espeonica's national animal is the feline, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Espeonica is ranked 327,985^th in the world and 3^rd in BENEVOLENT EMPIRE for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 18.64 on the Bus Surprisal Index.