The Most Serene Empire of Endless Summer 2 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Serene Empress Tatiana with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, rampant corporate plagiarism, and complete lack of prisons. The cheerful population of 11.626 billion Aestates enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The minute, liberal government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Konstantinoupolis. The average income tax rate is 2.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Aestivalis economy, worth a remarkable 2,063 trillion Drachmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 177,520 Drachmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, the government is hoping that medical aid will speak louder than human rights abuses, and bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination". Crime is totally unknown. Endless Summer 2's national animal is the Phoenix, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Endless Summer 2 is ranked 142,607^th in the world and 25^th in Modorra for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 658.66 on the Gilded Widget Scale.