The Empire of East Wushen is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by God-Emperor Narisawa Ichiyo with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.785 billion East Wushians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zi'ance. The average income tax rate is 74.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Wushian economy, worth 712 trillion Marks of Ichiyo a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,985 Marks of Ichiyo, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals are thrown to the Imperial Cheetahs to repay their debt to society, corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt, missionaries learn the hard way that their piercing spiritual insights are no match for arrows, and excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Wushen's national animal is the Imperial Cheetah, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ichito.

East Wushen is ranked 227,730^th in the world and 8,553^rd in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -256.11 on the Scary Big Number Scale.