The Autonomous Zones of Escapania is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by various with an even hand, and remarkable for its deadly medical pandemics, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 28.151 billion various enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

There is no government in the normal sense of the word; however, a small group of community-minded, liberal, pro-business individuals keep a keen eye out for any attempt to organize such a thing, and ruthlessly crush it. Income tax is unheard of.

The large but stagnant various economy, worth 453 trillion variouses a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Soda Sales, Gambling, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 16,103 variouses, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 150,086 per year while the poor average 154, a ratio of 972 to 1.

Teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool, where your food came from is an unknowable mystery, there's never a spare chair in the retirement home, and lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Escapania's national animal is the various, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is various.

Escapania is ranked 294,030^th in the world and 2^nd in AnCa for Lowest Crime Rates, with 1.89 law-abiding acts per hour.