The Democratic Republic of Estellan is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Astrid Karlsen with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, unlimited-speed roads, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 7.521 billion Estellanians 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, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Constellatia. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Estellanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,072 trillion Sinixes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 142,665 Sinixes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them, citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections, the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands, and the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life. Crime is totally unknown. Estellan's national animal is the Estellanian Short-Snouted Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Estellan is ranked 9,700^th in the world and 192^nd in Europe for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,619.96 pounds of wildlife per square mile.