The People's Republic of Crestsa is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Daniel Valdés with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 1.511 billion Crestsans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greyhaven. The average income tax rate is 45.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Crestsan economy, worth 138 trillion Novans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 91,989 Novans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities, the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm, and the nation's latest batch of politicians include internet comedians, an alleged serial killer, and a highly trained horse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crestsa's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is psastafirsm.

Crestsa is ranked 284,464^th in the world and 1,111^th in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Black Market, with 55.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.