The Cultural Capitalists of Echoslavia is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Alexander Henry Gonzalez with an iron fist, and notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, ritual sacrifices, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.732 billion Echoslavians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Geruva. The average income tax rate is 68.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Echoslavian economy, worth 944 trillion Echaran dollars a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 97,078 Echaran dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government officials say that if you close your eyes and wish really hard the budget deficit will go away, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, the government is chasing the gold at the end of the rainbow, and trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Echoslavia's national animal is the Orangutan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Echoslavia is ranked 314,229^th in the world and 123^rd in Pax Indica for Nicest Citizens, with 0.57 average smiles per day.