The Principality of Bird Estate is a titanic, orderly nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 12.333 billion Birdmen are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.9%.

The strong Feathered economy, worth 768 trillion seeds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Gambling, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 62,310 seeds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 352,671 per year while the poor average 5,394, a ratio of 65.4 to 1.

Crime is moderate, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Bird Estate's national animal is the bird, which can occasionally be seen dodging aircraft in the nation's cities.

Bird Estate is ranked 6,328^th in the world and 1^st in Bird Country for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 6,323.93 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.