The United Autocratic States of The Estherekways is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by The Great Xalvor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, public floggings, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.65 billion Estherekwaysians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Spirituality, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xalvor city. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 77.7%.

The Estherekwaysian economy, worth 325 trillion ESTS a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. State-owned companies are the norm. Average income is 57,649 ESTS, with the richest citizens earning 9.6 times as much as the poorest.

Stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as Estherekwaysian humor gets, bungee jumpers frequently go splat, The Great Xalvor has been declared supreme ruler for all eternity, and molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. The Estherekways's national animal is the HORSE, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Xalvorism.

The Estherekways is ranked 242,574^th in the world and 3^rd in NATO for Highest Poor Incomes, with 16,742.63 Standard Monetary Units.