The State of Ebed is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with a fair hand, and renowned for its spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 28.924 billion Ebedians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.0%.

The very strong Ebedian economy, worth 854 trillion betales a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 29,539 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 200,832 per year while the poor average 1,587, a ratio of 126 to 1.

The alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit, the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars, Ebed has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Ebed in an international press conference. Crime is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Ebed's national animal is the deer, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Ebed is ranked 128,740^th in the world and 1^st in South Pacific Islands for Most Primitive, scoring -35.36 on the Scary Big Number Scale.