The Armed Republic of Qude EV is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 763 million 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 45.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Qude EVian economy, worth 76.5 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 100,201 guns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to, creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project, tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, and the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned. 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 64,392^nd in the world and 10^th in The waters for Highest Average Incomes, with 100,201.66 Standard Monetary Units.