The Republic of Great Easternesse is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mr Vercetti with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 1.552 billion Easternian are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Welfare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Veluca. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 22.0%.

The very strong Easternessean economy, worth 118 trillion Florins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Retail, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 76,169 Florins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 241,790 per year while the poor average 18,284, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

Scout campfire sing-a-longs tend to focus on the evils of antitrust legislation, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, 75% of the words in government-funded "Super Fun Maths Games" are probably inaccurate, and bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Great Easternesse's national animal is the Imperial Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Monotheism.

Great Easternesse is ranked 216,966^th in the world and 3,851^st in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -84.06 on the Scary Big Number Scale.