The Grand Union of The Eastern Antarctic State is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Matthew Dawson with a fair hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 19.97 billion Eastern Antarcticans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Casey. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Eastern Antarctic economy, worth a remarkable 1,740 trillion Antarctic Units a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 87,168 Antarctic Units, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The arms industry is strictly regulated, large sections of The Eastern Antarctic State have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there, Eastern Antarcticans refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, and unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount Casey make great practice for foreign snipers. Crime is totally unknown. The Eastern Antarctic State's national animal is the Antarctican Kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Eastern Antarctic State is ranked 31,598^th in the world and 7^th in Australialia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.94 law-abiding acts per hour.