The Hyperconsumerist Fiefdom of Quaeteno is a huge, socially progressive nation, ruled by High Yeoman Olaf Morbucks with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, rampant corporate plagiarism, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 988 million Quaetenonians 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 government is primarily concerned with Industry, with Administration and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Hisperia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 3.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Quaetenonian economy, worth 135 trillion Quartrons a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Information Technology, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 137,466 Quartrons, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 856,285 per year while the poor average 9,437, a ratio of 90.7 to 1.

People with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals, cigarettes are dead-cheap, textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be, and there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia. Crime, especially youth-related, is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Quaeteno's national animal is the Sheep, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Quaeteno is ranked 271,104^th in the world and 4,397^th in The North Pacific for Highest Poor Incomes, with 9,437.99 Standard Monetary Units.