The Federation of Exotic Cheese is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 358 million Exotic Cheeses are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Exotic Cheese economy, worth 5.93 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 16,561 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Police reduce their paperwork by refusing to arrest anyone, re-education centers are being added to most prisons, traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways, and religious education is a new government priority. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Exotic Cheese's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Exotic Cheese is ranked 281,291^st in the world and 2^nd in Schattenland for Fattest Citizens, with 6.65 Obesity Rate.