The Dominion of Hexa East is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, daily referendums, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 12.394 billion Hexa Eastians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 29.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Hexa Eastian economy, worth 976 trillion guilders a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,821 guilders, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals, and the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Hexa East's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Hexa East is ranked 159,350^th in the world and 4^th in Coalition of Catholic States for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 62.01 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.