The Democratic Federation of East Fredonia is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by President Carlsson with an even hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 9.417 billion East Fredonians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lumière. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient East Fredonian economy, worth a remarkable 1,568 trillion bitcoins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 166,509 bitcoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The people elect the Supreme Court justices directly, barbers who trim a few inches of hair bill the government for their labor, the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay, and sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming. Crime is totally unknown. East Fredonia's national animal is the Porg, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East Fredonia is ranked 235,020^th in the world and 126^th in The Social Liberal Union for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -21.75 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.