The Thaumatarchic Interzone of Darussalam is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Al-Qa'im of a Thousand Nights with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, deadly medical pandemics, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless, devout population of 29.282 billion Darussalamis enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Al-Mada'in. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Darussalami economy, worth a remarkable 8,786 trillion rupees a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Soda Sales. Average income is an amazing 300,070 rupees, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,326,523 per year while the poor average 42,464, a ratio of 31.2 to 1.

Weekends are spent tilting at windmills, suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe, the nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event, and police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Darussalam's national animal is the peacock, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Ishraqism.

Darussalam is ranked 97,077^th in the world and 7^th in Valkia for Most Developed, scoring 61.69 on the Human Development Index.