The Armed Republic of Ekygon is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Lucky with an iron fist, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 4.001 billion Ekygonians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kongora. The average income tax rate is 82.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ekygonian economy, worth 907 trillion Yans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 226,801 Yans, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day, athletes and street criminals compete for solid steel baseball bats, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, and genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ekygon's national animal is the Gorilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ekygon is ranked 6,312^th in the world and 8^th in Thaecia for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 50,292.09 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.