The Demoncratic States of Sestabolgia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Staan with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, complete lack of prisons, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 8.978 billion Sestabolgians 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 Administration, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pandaemonium City. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Sestabolgian economy, worth a remarkable 2,211 trillion mamons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 246,368 mamons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

"Staan got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom, bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls, hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport, and mandatory updates on software drivers often bring life to a halt. Crime is totally unknown. Sestabolgia's national animal is the goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is agnosticism.

Sestabolgia is ranked 286,556^th in the world and 6,051^st in the Rejected Realms for Most Authoritarian, with 115.85 milliStalins.