The Most Serene Republic of East Endia is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its daily referendums, rampant corporate plagiarism, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 635 million East Endians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solarien. The average income tax rate is 86.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Endian economy, worth 64.7 trillion standards 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 101,915 standards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All beauty contests have been banned, school lockers are filled with fancy underwear, crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead, and prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Endia's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East Endia is ranked 151,221^st in the world and 2,730^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 421.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.