The Empire of Estevantia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 286 million Estevantians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 17.2%.

The strong Estevantian economy, worth 15.5 trillion Spiceses a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Cheese Exports industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Book Publishing, and Gambling. Average income is 54,219 Spiceses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.9 times as much as the poorest.

Shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, movie references are legally admissible in court, the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network, and the nation's soldiers are considered the best-dressed in Byzantion. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Estevantia's national animal is the Hoopoe, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Estevantia is ranked 140,580^th in the world and 86^th in Byzantion for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 681.77 on the Gilded Widget Scale.