The Empire of Trendsetter is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by The Trendsetting Trendsetter with an iron fist, and notable for its closed borders, prohibition of alcohol, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 24.001 billion Trendsetterians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trendsetting Place. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Trendsetterian economy, worth a remarkable 7,590 trillion Status Quos 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. 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 amazing 316,267 Status Quos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Trendsetter's citizens often wander into each other's homes, small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists, tourists are forbidden to enter Native Trendsetterian lands, and the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Trendsetter's national animal is the Trend, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Trender.

Trendsetter is ranked 5,693^rd in the world and 1^st in Trendsetter for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 95.05 Effective Tax Rate.