The Incorporated States of The East Korean Company is a large, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 88 million East Korean Companyians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order and Administration also on the agenda, while International Aid and Spirituality aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.7%.

The very strong East Korean Companyian economy, worth 6.54 trillion The US dollars a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Retail. Average income is 74,317 The US dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 271,048 per year while the poor average 14,472, a ratio of 18.7 to 1.

New legislators take a week-long class entitled "Keeping Your Job: How to Avoid Offending Leader", punitive tariffs protect local industry, TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, and citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked. Crime is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The East Korean Company's national animal is the Human, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

The East Korean Company is ranked 160,161^st in the world and 197^th in The Black Hawks for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 61.64 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.