The Blessedly Sapphic Isles of Staidear is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Verity Emeline Fennel with an iron fist, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.014 billion hillfolk are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eld Veritas. The average income tax rate is 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Staidish economy, worth a remarkable 4,407 trillion Staidish Chestnuts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 293,582 Staidish Chestnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts, international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty, citizens have never heard foreign radio, and favourite sermons have replaced campfire horror stories on teenage wilderness trips. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Staidear's national animal is the great albatross, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Congrégation de la Fraternité.

Staidear is ranked 13,451^st in the world and 12^th in Declansburg for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 9,707.87 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.