The Company of Echelon Defense Co is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Colton Whitmore Jr with a fair hand, and renowned for its ritual sacrifices, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 3.434 billion Employees are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The relatively small government prioritizes Defense, with Administration, Law & Order, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperius. The average income tax rate is 17.4%.

The thriving Employed economy, worth 247 trillion Imperians a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 72,172 Imperians, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

Photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in Colton Whitmore Jr's bedroom, escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky, the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one, and Colton Whitmore Jr has just been declared ruler of Echelon Defense Co in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force. Echelon Defense Co's national animal is the F-72X, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Echelon Defense Co is ranked 90,320^th in the world and 28^th in Union of Allied States for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,364.99 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.