The Republic of ESPARTHAN is a massive, safe nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, digital currency, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 1.31 billion ESPARTHANIANS have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of ESPAHAN. The average income tax rate is 51.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving ESPARTHANian economy, worth 88.3 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 67,391 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Netizens fiercely argue over who loves Leader more, royalist is the most offensive slur in the ESPARTHANian language, billions of dollars are being poured into a space program, and the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. ESPARTHAN's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

ESPARTHAN is ranked 178,292^nd in the world and 3,287^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 49.41 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.