The Colony of Esterios is a mammoth, safe nation, notable for its state-planned economy and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 6.298 billion Osirans 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 35.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Osiran economy, worth 60.4 trillion scarabs 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Retail, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 9,597 scarabs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Esterios's national animal is the scarab.

Esterios is ranked 178,071^st in the world and 1^st in Esterios for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.