The People's Republic of Crestsa is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by President Daniel Valdés with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 1.616 billion Crestsans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Greyhaven. The average income tax rate is 46.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Crestsan economy, worth 150 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 92,803 Novans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies, both criminals and civilians are DOA, political spontaneity takes a lot of planning, and excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside. 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 42,921^st in the world and 164^th in the Plains of Perdition for Least Corrupt Governments, with 93.93 percentage of bribes refused.