The Dictatorship of Fort Esc is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Alistair Stewart with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, complete lack of prisons, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.827 billion Fort Escians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cabin Control. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Fort Escian economy, worth a remarkable 1,332 trillion platcubes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 123,065 platcubes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life, nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue, funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals, and the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Fort Esc's national animal is the tardigrade, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Fort Esc is ranked 245,723^rd in the world and 9,204^th in Balder for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -7.2 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.