The Cultural Capitalists of Echoslavia is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Alexander Henry Gonzalez with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, compulsory vegetarianism, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.849 billion Echoslavians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Geruva. The average income tax rate is 69.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Echoslavian economy, worth 931 trillion Echaran dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 94,527 Echaran dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit, the leaders of Echoslavia are given the nod by their predecessors, welfare recipients frequently parlay checks into homelessness, and the first sword of Echoslavia does not run. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Echoslavia's national animal is the Orangutan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Echoslavia is ranked 96,919^th in the world and 43^rd in Pax Indica for Most Developed, scoring 62.51 on the Human Development Index.