The State of Eastern Bentley is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, ban on automobiles, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 22.961 billion Eastern Bentleyians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Eastern Bentleyian economy, worth 87.0 trillion betales 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 3,791 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist, organ donation rates have hit a new low, Eastern Bentley has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Eastern Bentley in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastern Bentley's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eastern Bentley is ranked 229,431^st in the world and 1^st in Saint Helena for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -2.42 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.