The Borderlands of Eastland Federation is a huge, cultured nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 264 million Eastland Federationians 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 enormous, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 66.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Eastland Federationian economy, worth 10.5 trillion tsats a year, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,703 tsats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company, the government thinks Eastland Federationians can achieve social cohesion by drinking soda together, the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide, and Leader can't hear a thing when the unwashed masses throw rocks at the new state limousine. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eastland Federation's national animal is the Gray Wolf, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Eastland Federation is ranked 74,150^th in the world and 86^th in Kantrias for Safest, scoring 92.99 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.