The Islamic Republic of Eshkedibra is a massive, genial nation, notable for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, devout population of 2.479 billion Eshkedibrans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 61.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Eshkedibran economy, worth 174 trillion dinars a year, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,067 dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Eshkedibran Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely, the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great Eshkedibran Desert, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, and putting a mustache on a banknote is considered defacing a national monument. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eshkedibra's national animal is the leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Hanafi Sunni Islam.

Eshkedibra is ranked 80,293^rd in the world and 7^th in Homestead for Most Developed, scoring 67.31 on the Human Development Index.