The Republic of East Harkway is a huge, safe nation, notable for its daily referendums, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 465 million Harkians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capybara City. The average income tax rate is 80.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped East Harkwayian economy, worth 17.8 trillion harks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Cheese Exports. Average income is 38,319 harks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated, transgender and agender are on the education agenda, it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from Leader's childhood, and the East Harkwayian Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Harkway's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East Harkway is ranked 122,204^th in the world and 562^nd in 10000 Islands for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 76.76 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.