The People's Republic of Eian is a tiny, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 9 million Eianians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 71.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Eianian economy, worth 232 billion ryous a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Trout Farming, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 25,798 ryous, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Scientists take credit every time it rains in The Leftist Assembly, frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security, property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities, and kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eian's national animal is the phoenix.

Eian is ranked 197,299^th in the world and 667^th in The Leftist Assembly for Highest Drug Use, scoring 101.67 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.