Location: Rushmore

Overview • People • Government • Economy • Trend • Analysis

The Imperial Commonwealth of Eastfield Lodge is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Iqbal II with an even hand, and notable for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 10.436 billion are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, socially-minded government stops and the rest of society begins, but it is mainly concerned with Law & Order, although Religion & Spirituality and Education are secondary priorities. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lodgertia. The average income tax rate is 99%. The private sector is almost wholly made up of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out.

The importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age, people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, the nation leads Rushmore in per capita stalking, and nursing mothers are often arrested for indecent exposure. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastfield Lodge's national animal is the digital fly, which is also the nation's favorite main course, its national religion is Islam, and its currency is the fishfinger.

Eastfield Lodge is ranked 1st in Rushmore and 786th in the world for Largest Public Sector, scoring 40 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and