The Democratic Republic of Espiritual is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Mestre da Iluminação with an even hand, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, devout population of 820 million Espiritualians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sagrada Espiritual. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Espiritualian economy, worth 108 trillion Carmas a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 132,057 Carmas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Welfare funding has recently gone through the roof, buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel, pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects, and stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Espiritual's national animal is the Pomba, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Espiritual is ranked 85,129^th in the world and 2,118^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 14.64 average smiles per day.