The People's Republic of Eastern China Desert is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its national health service, ban on automobiles, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 252 million Eastern China Desertians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Eastern China Desertian economy, worth 7.70 trillion euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 30,547 euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries, disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Eastern China Desert City Times is sold out, and citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastern China Desert's national animal is the dodo bird, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Eastern China Desert is ranked 66,886^th in the world and 391^st in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 21.08 flags saluted per person per day.