The Incorporated States of The Ecstatic Empire is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Sovereign Incognito with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, frequent executions, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 1.585 billion Ecstaticians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government prioritizes Education, with Environment, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elation. The average income tax rate is 35.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ecstatic Empirean economy, worth 211 trillion Glees 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, Trout Farming, and Tourism. 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 133,571 Glees, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The latest tariff war with Dàguó is a car crash in slow motion, Legitimate Businessmen Social Clubs are the only places to legitimately get high tech, economic planning is exalted as a human art form, and patriotic citizens simply tend to applaud rather than sing the nation's praises. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Ecstatic Empire's national animal is the Eastern Grey Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Ecstatic Empire is ranked 53,566^th in the world and 47^th in Starlight for Largest Black Market, with 13.3 trillion Standard Monetary Units.