The E5 Series Shinkansen of The Featured Region Express is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Train Conductor Kai with an iron fist, and remarkable for its lack of airports, compulsory vegetarianism, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 6.656 billion Featured Region Express Passengers are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, moralistic government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Industry, Public Transport, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of A E5 Shinkansen Locomotive. The average income tax rate is 97.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Featured Region Express Passenger economy, worth 447 trillion Passenger Tickets a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, extremely specialized black market in Soda Sales. 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 67,201 Passenger Tickets, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs, the black market offers sweet deals, Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities, and cultural heritage is measured in Scoville Heat Units. Crime is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. The Featured Region Express's national animal is the Arctic Tern, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is Railfan.

The Featured Region Express is ranked 214,926^th in the world and 8^th in The Great Sound for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -2.66 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.