The Armed Republic of Qude EV is a huge, cultured nation, notable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 723 million Qude EVians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Impenetrable Home Base Of War. The average income tax rate is 47.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Qude EVian economy, worth 71.3 trillion guns 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 98,625 guns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The media have begun calling the government treasury "Leader's stash", wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high, elementary school children develop thousand-yard stares, and signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Qude EV's national animal is the tank, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Qude EV is ranked 73,946^th in the world and 9^th in The waters for Most Developed, scoring 69.16 on the Human Development Index.