The Kingdom of Airella is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its public floggings, frequent executions, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 356 million Airellans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ellira. The average income tax rate is 32.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Airellan economy, worth 13.8 trillion elles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 38,860 elles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances, government popup ads are springing up like weeds, the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores, and medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Airella's national animal is the arctic fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Airella is ranked 137,638^th in the world and 3,094^th in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 65 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.