The Republic of Entistand is a massive, safe nation, notable for its enslaved workforce, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.285 billion Entistandians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Entistandian economy, worth 179 trillion rubles a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 139,780 rubles, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,261,665 per year while the poor average 1,881, a ratio of 670 to 1.

Odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas, Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer, the only position a woman can hold is baby-maker, and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Entistand's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Entistand is ranked 321,521^st in the world and 33^rd in Empires Forever United for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring -10.49 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.