The Democratic Republic of The East Calypso is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Luis Medina Fernández with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, devout population of 3.9 billion East Calypsoans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of East Edoron. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The East Calypsoan economy, worth 274 trillion East Calypso pesos a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 70,298 East Calypso pesos, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons, urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens, power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky, and the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The East Calypso's national animal is the Caribbean reef squid, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Roman Catholicism.

The East Calypso is ranked 277,187^th in the world and 10,264^th in Osiris for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -11.31 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.