The Dark Elven Realm of Imperial Shaustria is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Empress María Celestia with a fair hand, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, flagrant waste-dumping, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 15.941 billion Shaustrians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, corrupt, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mondragón. The average income tax rate is 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Imperial Shaustrian economy, worth a remarkable 3,931 trillion Imperial Crowns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 246,601 Imperial Crowns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens receive notices of disenfranchisement along with their parking tickets, Imperial Shaustrian politics is literally a blood sport, one man's trash is another company's tax break, and the army lives rent-free in foreigners' heads and houses. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Imperial Shaustria's national animal is the Obsidian Coyote, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Covenant of the Nine.

Imperial Shaustria is ranked 6,577^th in the world and 6^th in Eladria for Highest Average Incomes, with 246,601.3 Standard Monetary Units.