The People's Republic of Eastern Pealia Ame is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its anti-smoking policies, ubiquitous missile silos, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 438 million Eastern Pealia Ameans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tukváros. The average income tax rate is 82.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Eastern Pealia Amean economy, worth 9.18 trillion rubles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Cheese 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 20,950 rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary, the nation has always been at war with Moltovea, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', and abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastern Pealia Ame's national animal is the squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eastern Pealia Ame is ranked 273,975^th in the world and 6,122^nd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 56 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.