The Custodian Technocracy of Esmerel is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Coordinator-General Gwyneth Tabor with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cheerful population of 16.703 billion Esmerelians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lapiz Point. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Esmerelian economy, worth a remarkable 5,144 trillion NationStates Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 308,009 NationStates Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One can wake up in Esmerel and have breakfast in Bigtopia, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, large sections of Esmerel have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, and the weather in Lapiz Point is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Esmerel's national animal is the Raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Esmerel is ranked 28,890^th in the world and 13^th in New Hyperion for Most Valuable International Artwork, with zero Bank.