The Purple Denouement of Epilogia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Deus Ex Machina with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and anti-smoking policies. The compassionate, democratic population of 32.485 billion Epilogians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fin. The average income tax rate is 60.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Epilogian economy, worth a remarkable 2,686 trillion ends 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Book Publishing, Retail, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 82,699 ends, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Only those who apply can study applied maths, the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service, some magnifier-wielding Epilogians say Deus Ex Machina seems a little lacking in something, and nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Epilogia's national animal is the red herring, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is literary criticism.

Epilogia is ranked 84,317^th in the world and 5^th in T2R for Highest Average Incomes, with 82,699.76 Standard Monetary Units.