The Protectorate of Equestribilis is a very large, genial nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 303 million Equestribilians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Equestribilian economy, worth 10.6 trillion bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 35,106 bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Equestribilian grocery store, the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around Equestribilis City, and court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point. Crime is totally unknown. Equestribilis's national animal is the pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Equestribilis is ranked 303,344^th in the world and 1^st in Aeternal Realm for Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector, scoring -9.81 on the Charon Conveyancy Index.