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The Kingdom of Estande is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Filipe Gonçalves de Sá with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, devout population of 9.286 billion Estandérs are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Estrada. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Estandér economy, worth a remarkable 1,293 trillion escudoes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 139,269 escudoes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable, they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop), the government is spending billions of taxpayer escudoes to support "struggling" industries, and commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Estande's national animal is the estandér eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Estande is ranked 115,215^th in the world and 1,815^th in The East Pacific for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 2,657.44 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.