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The Imperial Commonwealth of Eastfield Lodge is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by King Iqbal II with an even hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, complete lack of prisons, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, cheerful, devout population of 35.917 billion Eastfielders are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lodgertia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Eastfielder economy, worth an astonishing 13,670 trillion Fishfingers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 380,614 Fishfingers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cars are banned, black tea is only available on the black market, conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies, and withdrawal of support for drug addicts is leaving many with cold sweats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastfield Lodge's national animal is the digitalis-tailed lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Eastfield Lodge is ranked 12^th in the world and 1^st in Rushmore for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 36,541.83 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.