The 3rd Tsardom of East Sakhlin is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Tsar Peter IV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, national health service, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 12.355 billion Sakhalinsks 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Poronaysk. The average income tax rate is 91.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Sakhlinian economy, worth a remarkable 1,574 trillion New Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 127,413 New Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, East Sakhlin successfully hosted the The East Pacific Olympics, and high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Sakhlin's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Russian Orthodox.

East Sakhlin is ranked 132,490^th in the world and 2,854^th in The East Pacific for Safest, scoring 68.2 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.