The Most Serene Republic of East Endia is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, museums and concert halls, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic population of 720 million East Endians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Solarien. The average income tax rate is 88.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Endian economy, worth 76.9 trillion standards 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 106,834 standards, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It's always rabbit season, the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself, dinner parties often end in politically charged fist fights, and major internet servers have acquired citizenship. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Endia's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East Endia is ranked 16,783^rd in the world and 409^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 308.79 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.