The Feudal State of Eastern Bahia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Gabas with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, strictly enforced bedtime, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.026 billion Bahians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Salvador. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 7.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Eastern Bahian economy, worth a remarkable 2,052 trillion Novos cruzados roais do rois a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Information Technology, and Gambling. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an amazing 204,724 Novos cruzados roais do rois, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,040,206 per year while the poor average 22,294, a ratio of 46.7 to 1.

Medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand, the roads are virtually falling apart, and virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in Salvador. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Eastern Bahia's national animal is the Bat, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Spiritism.

Eastern Bahia is ranked 1,916^th in the world and 38^th in the South Pacific for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 189,984.02 Standard Monetary Units.