The People's Republic of Eqiria is a massive, genial nation, ruled by People's Committee with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.211 billion Eqirians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Equrbia. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Eqirian economy, worth 95.0 trillion prolets a year, is highly specialized and led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,486 prolets, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high, bureaucrats close new businesses for not complying with the Penguin Packaging Index, children are strong-armed by police into eating their greens, and there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees her shadow. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eqiria's national animal is the lynx, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Harmony.

Eqiria is ranked 328,004^th in the world and 2,667^th in the West Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -16.61 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.