The Empire of Ecoul is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Antolin with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, free-roaming dinosaurs, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 1.16 billion Ecoulians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 61.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ecoulian economy, worth 110 trillion Ecos a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 95,163 Ecos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework, the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, liberals and conservatives try to disqualify each other's candidates on the grounds that "their ideas would never work in the real world", and EpiPen sales have skyrocketed. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ecoul's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Christianity and Islam.

Ecoul is ranked 38,488^th in the world and 62^nd in The Kodiak Republic for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.