The State of Espana is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 24.135 billion Espanans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.5%.

The strong Espanan economy, worth a remarkable 1,234 trillion betales 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 led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 51,138 betales, with the richest citizens earning 6.8 times as much as the poorest.

The airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station, graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail, and Espana has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Espana's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Espana is ranked 251,611^th in the world and 5^th in Asmara for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 16,108.65 Standard Monetary Units.