The Disputed Territories of East River Falls is a massive, genial nation, notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory vegetarianism, and enforced nudity. The democratic, humorless population of 4.349 billion East River Fallsians 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 Law & Order, Public Transport, and Education. The average income tax rate is 69.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped East River Fallsian economy, worth 125 trillion Dollars 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. 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 28,765 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, the nation's gigantic air force is both respected and feared, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East River Falls's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East River Falls is ranked 86,642^nd in the world and 4^th in The Royal Alliance II for Most Beautiful Environments, with 584.74 pounds of wildlife per square mile.