The Dictatorship of Airelle is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 663 million Airelleans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elle. The average income tax rate is 77.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Airellean economy, worth 53.6 trillion kroner a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,874 kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors, advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of Leader's most personal functions, Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion, and suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Airelle's national animal is the bunny, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Airelle is ranked 237,000^th in the world and 5,313^th in The North Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 47.56 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.