The Feudal State of Eastern Bahia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Gabas with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, pith helmet sales, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.058 billion Bahians 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 relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salvador. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Eastern Bahian economy, worth a remarkable 2,071 trillion Novos cruzados roais do rois a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 205,993 Novos cruzados roais do rois, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,054,664 per year while the poor average 22,091, a ratio of 47.7 to 1.

Tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort, Bahians incessantly needle their doctors for relief, childish pranks are no laughing matter, and sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Eastern Bahia's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Spiritism.

Eastern Bahia is ranked 1,693^rd in the world and 34^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 16,565.73 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.