The Federal Council Republic of East Owenistan is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Owen Jayne with an even hand, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.714 billion East Owenistanians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Administration, Industry, and Education are also considered important, while Environment and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yelnats-Zeroni. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Owenese economy, worth 534 trillion rubles 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 a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. 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 impressive 143,892 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of lions and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, and new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes. Crime is totally unknown. East Owenistan's national animal is the lion, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

East Owenistan is ranked 16,045^th in the world and 388^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 316.96 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.