The Republic of Drated Ste is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates. The compassionate, devout population of 962 million Drated Steans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized government is primarily concerned with Education, although Administration, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 23.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Drated Stean economy, worth 51.9 trillion florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 53,973 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All you have to do is pray to get into Drated Ste, chickens roam the streets freely, business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions, and cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Drated Ste's national animal is the leopard, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Drated Ste is ranked 15,688^th in the world and 24^th in Saint Osmund for Nicest Citizens, with 24.99 average smiles per day.