The Community of Economic Development is a mid-sized, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 85 million Americans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 11.7%.

The all-consuming American economy, worth 7.96 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 93,670 Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 516,190 per year while the poor average 8,605, a ratio of 60.0 to 1.

The government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, AI models unanimously choose all government facts, the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42, and foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Economic Development's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Economic Development is ranked 208,151^st in the world and 1^st in Economic Development Zone for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 30.68 on the Bus Surprisal Index.