The Council Republic of Aatelisia is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Rasmus Talaka with an even hand, and notable for its avant-garde cinema, otherworldly petting zoo, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 20.694 billion Aatelisians 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 medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Palatsinlinna. The average income tax rate is 79.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Aatelisian economy, worth a remarkable 3,117 trillion Kolikkoes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 150,649 Kolikkoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books, Aatelisians incessantly needle their doctors for relief, priests are being drafted by the church load, and military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aatelisia's national animal is the Sturgeon, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Talviuskuo.

Aatelisia is ranked 316,263^rd in the world and 5^th in Lerodas for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -37 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.