The Protectorate of East India Trading Co is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its compulsory military service, suspicion of poets, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 589 million Corporatists are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The thriving Corporatist economy, worth 45.9 trillion guilders a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 77,896 guilders, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 341,724 per year while the poor average 11,174, a ratio of 30.6 to 1.

Abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics, science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters, the police force is on a recruitment drive, and earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control, thanks to a capable police force. East India Trading Co's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

East India Trading Co is ranked 54,220^th in the world and 2,967^th in The North Pacific for Safest, scoring 93.15 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.