The High Athelingric of Ecolace is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an iron fist, and notable for its smutty television, disturbing lack of elderly people, and frequent executions. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.868 billion Ecolaceans 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 large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Ecolacean economy, worth a remarkable 1,353 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 152,572 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 436,822 per year while the poor average 42,423, a ratio of 10.3 to 1.

Former polygamists always seem to have a huge number of visiting cousins, the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda, agricultural employees work for peanuts, and the media have begun calling the government treasury "Asher Wiley's stash". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ecolace's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Ecolace is ranked 11,627^th in the world and 6^th in Snep for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 61.36 on the Kitten Softness Rating.