The Empire of Praestare is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Earth Wanderer with a fair hand, and notable for its pith helmet sales, public floggings, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.079 billion Praestareans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Environment, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aevitas. The average income tax rate is 75.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Praestarean economy, worth a remarkable 1,149 trillion Lyres a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 103,795 Lyres, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's war memorials are being torn down and replaced with peace gardens, wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high, from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Praestare, and prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Praestare's national animal is the Stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Praestare is ranked 127,808^th in the world and 20^th in Testregionia for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.