The People's Republic of Crestsa is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by President Daniel Valdés with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and frequent executions. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 1.472 billion Crestsans are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greyhaven. The average income tax rate is 44.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Crestsan economy, worth 135 trillion Novans a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 92,096 Novans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Solid-gold toilets are Crestsan prisons' least expensive furnishings, families make most of their annual income from government benefits, state media features lively debates such as whether pineapple on pizza is an acceptable topping, and weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Crestsa's national animal is the horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is psastafirsm.

Crestsa is ranked 223,042^nd in the world and 643^rd in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Populations, with 1.47 billion capita.