The Empire of Dongming is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Emperor of the eastern Ming Dynasty with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 7.238 billion Han Chinese are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Changxing. The average income tax rate is 80.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dongmingian economy, worth a remarkable 1,426 trillion EmpireRenminbis a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 197,137 EmpireRenminbis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Withdrawal of support for drug addicts is leaving many with cold sweats, the national security service are a bunch of crooks, any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property, and blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dongming's national animal is the Kirin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Monarchical communism.

Dongming is ranked 24,148^th in the world and 6^th in China for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,443.5 on the Gilded Widget Scale.