The Protectorate of Aestasia is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its frequent executions, compulsory military service, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 447 million Aestasians 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 medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.6%.

The Aestasian economy, worth 20.6 trillion Pecunia Aestasiaes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Automobile Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 46,103 Pecunia Aestasiaes, with the richest citizens earning 7.4 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support, basket-weaving is the nation's latest fad, college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza, and there's a bright dawn ahead for Aestasia. Crime is moderate. Aestasia's national animal is the Accipiter Aestasiae, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Aestasia is ranked 72,870^th in the world and 3,251^st in Osiris for Healthiest Citizens, with 3.93 bananas ingested per day.