The Sacred Kingdom of Staidear is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Verity Queen Rosabella Smythe with an iron fist, and notable for its fear of technology, ritual sacrifices, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.506 billion Staidish are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caelomire. The average income tax rate is 97.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Staidish economy, worth a remarkable 6,564 trillion Staidish Chestnuts a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 354,729 Staidish Chestnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls, museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators, builders across Staidear are blocked up with orders for new public loos, and the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Staidear's national animal is the Staidish Mountain Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Fellowship of the Four Gates.

Staidear is ranked 36,216^th in the world and 32^nd in Declansburg for Lowest Crime Rates, with 82.26 law-abiding acts per hour.