The People's Republic of Eotheood is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by John Ragnarsson with an even hand, and notable for its smutty television, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, humorless population of 7.788 billion Hobbits 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 Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nova Roma. The average income tax rate is 94.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Eotheoodian economy, worth 953 trillion denarii 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 122,384 denarii, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list, and John Ragnarsson is strangely popular with male politicians' wives. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eotheood's national animal is the selkie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Urglaawe.

Eotheood is ranked 36,447^th in the world and 1^st in The Empire of Nova Roma for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.26 law-abiding acts per hour.