The E5 Series Shinkansen of The Featured Region Express is a mammoth, efficient nation, ruled by Train Conductor Kai with an iron fist, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, strictly enforced bedtime, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.826 billion Featured Region Express Passengers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it prioritizes Industry, although Public Transport, Healthcare, and Environment are also considered important, while Education and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of A E5 Shinkansen Locomotive. The average income tax rate is 96.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Region Express Passenger economy, worth 463 trillion Passenger Tickets a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Soda Sales. 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 67,870 Passenger Tickets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches, dessert dishes make up the Featured Region Express Passenger breakfast menu, most academic research has ground to a halt, and weird texts received at 2 a.m. are probably from the government. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Featured Region Express's national animal is the Arctic Tern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Traveling the Featured Regions of NS.

The Featured Region Express is ranked 330,393^rd in the world and 9^th in Alatria for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -12.59 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.