The Most Serene Republic of East Endia is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 564 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, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken 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 83.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming East Endian economy, worth 55.0 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 Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 97,567 standards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead", the government funds large training centres to turn squirrels into functioning members of society, immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs, and married couples must call each other "darling" or risk a fine. 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 35,126^th in the world and 816^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 80.04 law-abiding acts per hour.