The Village Network of Defeaters is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Teal J Desmond with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, infamous sell-swords, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 1.034 billion Defeaters are known throughout the region for their efficiency and work ethic, as well as their general suspicion of leisure.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Redville. The average income tax rate is 32.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Defeatian economy, worth 107 trillion Defeaters Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,323 Defeaters Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, religious people are committed to mental institutions for treatment, history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students, and the government has the power to seize property at will. Crime is totally unknown. Defeaters's national animal is the Face Eating Puppy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is None.

Defeaters is ranked 111,914^th in the world and 1^st in Roadside Stop for Largest Black Market, with 2.09 trillion Standard Monetary Units.