The Woodhouse Sanctum of Eckart is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, keen interest in outer space, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, hard-working, devout population of 29.971 billion Eckartians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 35.9%.

The all-consuming Eckartian economy, worth a remarkable 2,315 trillion $$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 77,249 $$s, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 221,485 per year while the poor average 21,436, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

The streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, Leader spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders, and a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eckart's national animal is the ^-^, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Eckart is ranked 56,654^th in the world and 1^st in Berghof for Safest, scoring 101.34 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.