The Community of Economic Development is a small, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, enslaved workforce, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 29 million Americans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Spirituality, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The powerhouse American economy, worth 2.57 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is 88,586 Dollars, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 540,735 per year while the poor average 6,405, a ratio of 84.4 to 1.

Punitive tariffs protect local industry, the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, finders keepers is the law of the land, and many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Economic Development's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Economic Development is ranked 279,437^th in the world and 17^th in Economic Development Zone for Nicest Citizens, with 4.49 average smiles per day.