The Democratic Utopia of South Easthern is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Engineer Dominic Jiyu with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 17.993 billion Owls enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hoot City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 16.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Owlian economy, worth a remarkable 7,405 trillion Feather Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 411,596 Feather Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

Young people crowd pizza parlors praying to 'The Supreme Pizza, His Immaculate Munchiness', one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for Engineer Dominic Jiyu's office, children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, and some achieve retirement and some have retirement thrust upon them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. South Easthern's national animal is the Fire Bearded Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is The Creator.

South Easthern is ranked 1,118^th in the world and 2^nd in The Hole To Hide In for Highest Average Incomes, with 411,596.69 Standard Monetary Units.