The Most Serene Republic of East Endia is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 635 million East Endians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solarien. The average income tax rate is 86.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Endian economy, worth 65.1 trillion standards 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 Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 102,531 standards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present, sex changes are routinely performed at East Endia's hospitals, the ruling party has a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks, and solid-gold toilets are East Endian prisons' least expensive furnishings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Endia's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East Endia is ranked 151,241^st in the world and 2,734^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 418.79 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.