The Allied States of East Pan Schevidust is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 282 million East Pan Schevidustians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient East Pan Schevidustian economy, worth 10.5 trillion kronor a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Average income is 37,347 kronor, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Most ambassadors from East Pan Schevidust retire only a few years after being appointed, solid-gold toilets are East Pan Schevidustian prisons' least expensive furnishings, the true length of the coastline of East Pan Schevidust may never be measured, and extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Pan Schevidust's national animal is the dragon.

East Pan Schevidust is ranked 18,994^th in the world and 518^th in the South Pacific for Nicest Citizens, with 23.31 average smiles per day.