The Empire of Trendsetter is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Trendsetting Trendsetter with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, anti-smoking policies, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 23.51 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, socially-minded, 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 95.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Trendsetterian economy, worth a remarkable 7,326 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, Basket Weaving, 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 amazing 311,648 Status Quos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Believers who wear their faith on their sleeves make easy targets in hostile areas, countless government officials are accused of espionage, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and tough diplomacy is often best handled with a nutcracker. Crime is a serious 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 302,069^th in the world and 1^st in Trendsetter for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring -407.73 on the Hayek Index.