The Commonwealth of Estmand is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Grand Marshal Skye Windstock with a fair hand, and renowned for its otherworldly petting zoo, digital currency, and soft-spoken computers. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 10.1 billion Estmandians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The tiny, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Halcyon. The average income tax rate is 1.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Estmandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,633 trillion e-zlats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an amazing 260,758 e-zlats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business, severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land, the deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts", and Estmandian politicians are often described as having more style than substance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Estmand's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Estmand is ranked 201,266^th in the world and 43^rd in Union of Christian Nations for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -1.77 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.