The Sovereign Rule of Aestorn is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Older Pig with an even hand, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, pith helmet sales, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 13.882 billion Aestornians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, socially-minded government prioritizes Education, although Healthcare, Environment, and Administration are also considered important, while Spirituality and Law & Order receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gipi. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Aestornian economy, worth a remarkable 1,334 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, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. 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 96,117 coins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads, citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages, aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted, and economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society. 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 1,384^th in the world and 2^nd in New Western Atlantic for Most Beautiful Environments, with 4,400.31 pounds of wildlife per square mile.