The Demoncratic States of Sestabolgia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Staan with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, sprawling nuclear power plants, and smutty television. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 9.178 billion Sestabolgians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandaemonium City. The average income tax rate is 98.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Sestabolgian economy, worth a remarkable 2,309 trillion mamons 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 251,655 mamons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse, older citizens lament over the loss of law and order, stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents, and one does not simply walk into the tundra. Crime is totally unknown. Sestabolgia's national animal is the goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is agnosticism.

Sestabolgia is ranked 5,399^th in the world and 148^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 9,908.2 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.