The Sovereign Rule of Aestorn is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Older Pig with an even hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, keen interest in outer space, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 13.946 billion Aestornians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Environment, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gipi. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Aestornian economy, worth a remarkable 1,327 trillion coins 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, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Book Publishing. 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 95,203 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills, Older Pig has promised 'power to the puppies', and the government has enacted freedom of information. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Aestorn's national animal is the human, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Aestorn is ranked 259,841^st in the world and 29^th in New Western Atlantic for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 42.61 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.