The Kingdom of Escevola is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by High King Cayo Mucio Escevola the Third with an iron fist, and renowned for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 7.578 billion Escians 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beatrix. The average income tax rate is 78.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Escevolan economy, worth a remarkable 1,067 trillion reais a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 140,903 reais, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children seem to be getting better at lying these days, more and more people are signing up for the government party, war vets look after war animals, and minstrels carrying coconut shells provide sound effects wherever their nobles wander. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Escevola's national animal is the sabertooth tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Catholic.

Escevola is ranked 230,011^th in the world and 7,792^nd in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 9.4 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.