The Kingdom of East Ruzzle is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Overlord with an iron fist, and renowned for its closed borders, frequent executions, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.563 billion East Ruzzleans 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Excellentia. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.0%.

The powerhouse East Ruzzlean economy, worth 391 trillion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 152,841 guilders, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 523,469 per year while the poor average 32,781, a ratio of 16.0 to 1.

Sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon, unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place, the legal profession considers itself above the law, and the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. East Ruzzle's national animal is the falcon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

East Ruzzle is ranked 50,974^th in the world and 3,384^th in Lazarus for Largest Governments, scoring 22.25 on the Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index.