The Empire of Trendsetter is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by The Trendsetting Trendsetter with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, prohibition of alcohol, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 23.958 billion Trendsetterians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trendsetting Place. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Trendsetterian economy, worth a remarkable 7,575 trillion Status Quos 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Basket Weaving. 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 an amazing 316,219 Status Quos, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, and insurance companies charge extortionate premiums to cover homes near waterways. Crime is a problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Trendsetter's national animal is the Trend, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Trender.

Trendsetter is ranked 156,564^th in the world and 1^st in Trendsetter for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 992.54 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.