The Empire of Trendsetter is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Trendsetting Trendsetter with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, anti-smoking policies, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 24.043 billion Trendsetterians 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 Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trendsetting Place. The average income tax rate is 95.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Trendsetterian economy, worth a remarkable 7,611 trillion Status Quos 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, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. 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 316,576 Status Quos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans, builders across Trendsetter are blocked up with orders for new public loos, even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious, and programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Trendsetter's national animal is the Trend, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Trender.

Trendsetter is ranked 116,766^th in the world and 1^st in Trendsetter for Highest Drug Use, scoring 144.07 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.