The High Athelingric of Evonath is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Asher Wiley with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, compulsory gun ownership, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 9.549 billion Evonathans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Osearwynn. The average income tax rate is 90.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Evonathian economy, worth a remarkable 1,526 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 159,855 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

A suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Evonathian politicians, shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves, women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms, and the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Evonath's national animal is the snow leopard, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Adoptionism.

Evonath is ranked 324,127^th in the world and 521^st in Starlight for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 19.72 on the Bus Surprisal Index.