The Blue Holy Christmas Tree of Easing is a titanic, socially progressive nation, ruled by Santa with an even hand, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, smutty television, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 19.839 billion Easingians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. The average income tax rate is 70.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Easingian economy, worth a remarkable 3,752 trillion Gold Coins 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, quite specialized black market in Retail, Trout Farming, Gambling, and Cheese Exports. 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 impressive 189,143 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

The saying "when pigs fly" has been changed to "when the lights work", earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, and lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Easing's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yodlism.

Easing is ranked 691^st in the world and 3^rd in Disney World for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 22,191.57 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.