The Blest Revolutionary Republic of Staidear is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Speaker Drusilla Kent with an iron fist, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, sprawling nuclear power plants, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.959 billion Staidish are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caelomire. The average income tax rate is 97.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Staidish economy, worth a remarkable 6,976 trillion Staidish Chestnuts 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. 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 an amazing 367,963 Staidish Chestnuts, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records, the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, and schoolchildren have more trading cards than flash cards in their backpacks. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Staidear's national animal is the Staidish Mountain Horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Fellowship of the Four Gates.

Staidear is ranked 664^th in the world and 2^nd in Declansburg for Largest Black Market, with 10,217 trillion Standard Monetary Units.