The Commonwealth of Egarata is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and frequent executions. The quiet, industrious population of 344 million Egaratanese 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tecidasatle. The average income tax rate is 60.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Egaratanese economy, worth 23.4 trillion Otacalis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Information Technology, Furniture Restoration, Uranium Mining, and Arms Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 67,952 Otacalis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts, security reviews double as political propaganda, real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens, and there's never enough space in space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Egarata's national animal is the Samoyed Dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Egarata is ranked 192,196^th in the world and 2,343^rd in The North Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -3 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.