The Empire of New Elesar is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Emperor Dimitri II Yusupov with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 23.685 billion Elesarians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alexandrovsk. The average income tax rate is 91.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient New Elesarian economy, worth a remarkable 2,448 trillion Hryvnias a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 103,362 Hryvnias, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out, public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity, flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services, and getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Elesar's national animal is the Double Headed Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Orthodox Christianity.

New Elesar is ranked 15,715^th in the world and 1^st in New Atlas for Most Conservative, scoring 85.17 on the Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index.