The ☯Eastern Dominion☯ of The Scarlet Estate is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Davide with an iron fist, and notable for its strictly enforced bedtime, anti-smoking policies, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 15.561 billion Children of the East 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."

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Environment is also considered important, while International Aid receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dominion HQ. The average income tax rate is 95.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Dominion economy, worth a remarkable 3,808 trillion variouses 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing and Basket Weaving. 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 amazing 244,765 variouses, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.8 times as much as the poorest.

Seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma, a recent "genocide prevention" campaign includes murdering children based on their DNA, bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral, and anti-tourism militias patrol the borders. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. The Scarlet Estate's national animal is the Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Various.

The Scarlet Estate is ranked 289,937^th in the world and 5^th in Eastern Paradise for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -23.47 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.