The Confederacy of East Mudfish is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by First Minister Festus McDunkel with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 16.899 billion East Mudfishians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of St Inkytown. The average income tax rate is 60.7%.

The frighteningly efficient East Mudfishian economy, worth a remarkable 2,900 trillion Pesos a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Retail, Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 171,648 Pesos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

First Minister Festus McDunkel is quite hard to get a hold of, AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth, parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads, and the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market. Crime is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Mudfish's national animal is the Eastern Mudfish, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Muddlism.

East Mudfish is ranked 97,207^th in the world and 98^th in The Regected Realns for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,426.4 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.