The Community of The Eternal October is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, anti-smoking policies, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 11.631 billion Eternals October are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of October Eternia. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Eternally October economy, worth 917 trillion Minutes a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 78,922 Minutes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers, grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths, and the Eternally October Intelligence Agency relies on internet search engines to know what is happening overseas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Eternal October's national animal is the Octopus, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Eternal October is ranked 26,524^th in the world and 1,718^th in Balder for Most Beautiful Environments, with 884.04 pounds of wildlife per square mile.