The Armed Dictatorship of Qude EV is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by 100 Percent Evil And Oppressive Overlord with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, compulsory military service, and exploding hoverboards. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.016 billion Qude EVians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Impenetrable Home Base Of War. The average income tax rate is 46.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Qude EVian economy, worth 102 trillion guns 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 100,451 guns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

100 Percent Evil And Oppressive Overlord has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences, travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air Qude EV flights to avoid the pay lavatories, the government invades its allies more than its enemies, and police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Qude EV's national animal is the tank, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Qude EV is ranked 66,105^th in the world and 10^th in The waters for Highest Average Incomes, with 100,451.7 Standard Monetary Units.