The Republic of Estisa is a fledgling, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 6 million Estisans enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 10.8%.

The Estisan economy, worth 262 billion ESDS a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Basket Weaving, and Book Publishing. Average income is 43,694 ESDS, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.9 times as much as the poorest.

The latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, and the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Estisa's national animal is the wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Estisa is ranked 239,446^th in the world and 1,375^th in the Plains of Perdition for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.