The Socialist Democracy of Equetcho is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Gracchus Babeuf with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.602 billion Equetchoans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Paris. The average income tax rate is 77.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Equetchoan economy, worth 143 trillion french fries 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 Trout Farming and Tourism. Average income is 89,474 french fries, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust, there's a mortuary next to every Equetchoan restaurant, and Equetchoans refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Equetcho's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is French Socialism.

Equetcho is ranked 19,888^th in the world and 482^nd in The Communist Bloc for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,031.75 pounds of wildlife per square mile.