The Oppressed Peoples of Qude EC is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by The Sentent Gold Plated Car with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, rampant corporate plagiarism, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.081 billion Qude ECians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government prioritizes Defense, although Industry, Administration, and Law & Order are also considered important, while International Aid and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The City On Wheels. The average income tax rate is 15.6%.

The all-consuming Qude ECian economy, worth 121 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,073 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.2 times as much as the poorest.

Arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands, The Sentent Gold Plated Car has a wardrobe full of fake designer suits, children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist, and the news is showing footage of The Sentent Gold Plated Car bullying an old man to the point of tears. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Qude EC's national animal is the jumping spider, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Worship of Automobiles.

Qude EC is ranked 265,075^th in the world and 42^nd in The waters for Most Cultured, scoring 61 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.