The United Socialist States of Eastknam is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by bird with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 9.643 billion Eastknamians 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calaborne. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Eastknamian economy, worth a remarkable 1,888 trillion Kasas a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 195,876 Kasas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Commerce on Eastknamian soil has entered foreign territory, residents are readily ratting out rats in restaurants, students are taught to count with all 9 fingers, and the government subsidizes those who produce the worst results. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastknam's national animal is the Nemboria, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Ashraism.

Eastknam is ranked 3,163^rd in the world and 6^th in Nordic Lands for Most Cultured, scoring 206 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.