The United Socialist States of East Pal Giulia is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Telophorus Videntii with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, unlimited-speed roads, and smutty television. The compassionate population of 9.559 billion East Pal Giulianites are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dzaigur. The average income tax rate is 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Pal Giuliani economy, worth a remarkable 1,164 trillion florins 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 121,823 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A passport is literally priceless, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response, and schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Pal Giulia's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Tigrine Scientific Atheism.

East Pal Giulia is ranked 308,666^th in the world and 2,691^st in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -18.38 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.