The United Socialist States of Ente is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Alexander Muller with an iron fist, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate, cynical population of 4.36 billion Entelanders are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Leninstadt. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Entean economy, worth 579 trillion Marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 133,003 Marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Loudmouthed journalists are given the chop, government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary, conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue, and drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ente's national animal is the Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ente is ranked 39,890^th in the world and 64^th in The Region That Has No Big Banks for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,689.94 on the Gilded Widget Scale.