The Deceased Metal Heap of East Lodge is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Dying Robot Eastie with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, ban on automobiles, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.99 billion East Lodgeans enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Center Lodge. The average income tax rate is 84.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Lodgean economy, worth 670 trillion chips a year, is quite specialized and led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 95,859 chips, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jennifer Government is a bestseller, crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead, murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows, and alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Lodge's national animal is the space lizard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Order of Cinder not fili haha.

East Lodge is ranked 246,515^th in the world and 6^th in Non Binary Safe Space for Highest Crime Rates, with 1.98 crimes per hour.