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The Capitalist Dictatorship of E D F is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Lucius Kobel with an iron fist, and renowned for its aversion to nipples, digital currency, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 16.721 billion E D F citizens are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eos. The average income tax rate is 93.2%.

The frighteningly efficient E D Fian economy, worth a remarkable 3,080 trillion EDF credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 184,238 EDF credits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire, the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under, the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air, and the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. E D F's national animal is the Chimera, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Capitalism.

E D F is ranked 189,754^th in the world and 1^st in Occupied Mars for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 582.74 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.