The Imperial State of Castelia is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Adalbert Impera Corvinius with an iron fist, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, flagrant waste-dumping, and national health service. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 19.475 billion Castelians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Castelia City. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Castelian economy, worth a remarkable 7,672 trillion mordons a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 393,964 mordons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,174,604 per year while the poor average 36,064, a ratio of 60.3 to 1.

Adalbert Impera Corvinius's recent "I have a dream that we will fight them by raking muck on the beaches" speech seems a little derivative to many, criminals identify as innocent, when the air force says "Black Hawk Down" they mean the feathers of the Castelian dark-plume goshawk, and students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic. Crime is totally unknown. Castelia's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The High Church of Castelia.

Castelia is ranked 304,067^th in the world and 178^th in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -612.9 on the Hayek Index.