The Protectorate of East India Trading Co is a large, efficient nation, remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, irreverence towards religion, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 50 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, although Law & Order is also considered important, while International Aid and Welfare aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.7%.

The thriving Corporatist economy, worth 3.89 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 20,188^th in the world and 855^th in The North Pacific for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 6,124.23 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.