The Protectorate of The Ecalpan Uchuugun 90th Squadron is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, triple-decker prams, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 651 million Ecalpans 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 is primarily concerned with Spirituality, although Education, Defense, and Welfare are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fort Fisher. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.8%.

The very strong Ecalpan economy, worth 32.4 trillion kobans a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Trout Farming. Average income is 49,816 kobans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 168,602 per year while the poor average 10,877, a ratio of 15.5 to 1.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark, Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts, and gambling is outlawed. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Ecalpan Uchuugun 90th Squadron's national animal is the crab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

The Ecalpan Uchuugun 90th Squadron is ranked 136,994^th in the world and 41^st in England for Most Corrupt Governments, with 4.77 kickbacks per hour.