The Directory of Sydonian Estates is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Director Jiro-Lyon-Aluard Lerange with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.143 billion Sydonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Sydonia. The average income tax rate is 53.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Sydonian Estatesian economy, worth 79.4 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 37,061 Credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Sydonian Estates has designated New Sydonia as its capital city, Director Jiro-Lyon-Aluard Lerange has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and it is cheaper to die in the wilderness than to survive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sydonian Estates's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is None.

Sydonian Estates is ranked 291,495^th in the world and 37^th in Novastralix for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -10.21 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.