The Dominion of The Dezreik is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by 'Ursa Major' Wheldrake with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, cynical population of 12.143 billion Dezreikians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Beornisgate. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Dezreikian economy, worth a remarkable 2,416 trillion Bobs 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 199,008 Bobs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world, and maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Dezreik's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Science.

The Dezreik is ranked 2,530^th in the world and 3^rd in International Democratic Union for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 19,541.56 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.