The Imperial Commonwealth of Eastfield Lodge is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by King Iqbal II with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, zero percent divorce rate, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 34.453 billion Eastfielders are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lodgertia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Eastfielder economy, worth an astonishing 13,411 trillion Fishfingers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 389,255 Fishfingers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Visiting the best Eastfielder restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions, and the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastfield Lodge's national animal is the digitalis-tailed lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Eastfield Lodge is ranked 290,898^th in the world and 99^th in Rushmore for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -86.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.