The Empire of Caelestae is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by The First Sun with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.456 billion Caelestaeans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vicia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.2%.

The powerhouse Caelestaean economy, worth 199 trillion Caelestaean Nihls a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 81,181 Caelestaean Nihls, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 437,281 per year while the poor average 7,835, a ratio of 55.8 to 1.

Hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts, young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables, only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens, and frowning on the job is a great way to get a raise. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Caelestae's national animal is the Leo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Roman Hellenism.

Caelestae is ranked 122,636^th in the world and 12^th in The Slumber for Most Developed, scoring 58.25 on the Human Development Index.