The Allied States of Esterild is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by someone like Russ Feingold with an even hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 28.169 billion Estrildians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The enormous but underdeveloped Esterildian economy, worth a remarkable 2,276 trillion spider drawings a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,817 spider drawings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material', plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, and a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Esterild's national animal is the platypus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Esterild is ranked 290,408^th in the world and 332^nd in Forest for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.23 kickbacks per hour.