The People's Republic of Eastern Buxtonia is a very large, socially progressive nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 248 million Eastern Buxtonians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Eastern Buxtonian economy, worth 3.44 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 13,863 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Oxygen is commonly known as 'breathinium', people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, criminals identify as innocent, and the government is forced to pander to the will of every fruitcake politician. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastern Buxtonia's national animal is the wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eastern Buxtonia is ranked 321,114^th in the world and 2,164^th in the West Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 2.00 billion Standard Monetary Units.