The Fox Inquisitor of East Lodge is a huge, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Aura with an even hand, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 865 million East Lodgeans 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of West Colony. The average income tax rate is 17.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming East Lodgean economy, worth 98.1 trillion Diamond Zalrecs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 113,427 Diamond Zalrecs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

You can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health, psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests, one of the nation's leading exports is empty platitudes, and East Lodgean actors literally work from cradle to grave. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Lodge's national animal is the Dog Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

East Lodge is ranked 116,286^th in the world and 4,770^th in the South Pacific for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 17.62 Effective Tax Rate.