The Queendom of Callistea is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Queen Amina with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 26.561 billion Callisteans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Environment, Spirituality, and Public Transport. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Paphos. The average income tax rate is 57.8%.

The sizeable but stagnant Callistean economy, worth 50.0 trillion golden apples a year, is extremely specialized and solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 1,884 golden apples, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century, you can be fired for dyeing grey hairs, Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case, and the church declares that everyone should get a large serving of nuts daily. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Callistea's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Alittism.

Callistea is ranked 302,332^nd in the world and 31^st in Arrosia for Smartest Citizens, with 1.57 quips per hour.