The United Workers' Republics of Democratic East-Asia is a gargantuan, genial nation, notable for its keen interest in outer space, vat-grown people, and ubiquitous missile silos. The compassionate population of 15.143 billion East Asian Comrades are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beijing. The average income tax rate is 83.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong East Asian economy, worth a remarkable 1,202 trillion Official Labor Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 79,384 Official Labor Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed, many friends and relatives of Leader have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, the doctor has cold hands, and children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Democratic East-Asia's national animal is the Proletarian Bunny Rabbit, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Marxist Leninism.

Democratic East-Asia is ranked 31,379^th in the world and 2,162^nd in Lazarus for Lowest Crime Rates, with 81.93 law-abiding acts per hour.