The Empire of Aelasia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, zero percent divorce rate, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 598 million Aelasians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Johansbourg. The average income tax rate is 46.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Aelasian economy, worth 72.6 trillion Aelasian Ducats a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,382 Aelasian Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, Aelasian police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests, and unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Aelasia's national animal is the Eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Aelasia is ranked 275,237^th in the world and 290^th in KAISERREICH for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -11.4 on the Clooney Contribution Index.