The Durm Ekruteak Nazgurth of Den is a mammoth, orderly nation, ruled by Durm Ekruteak Nazgurth with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 9.018 billion Denizens 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 large, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Durmengrad at Update's End. The average income tax rate is 41.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Den economy, worth 97.6 trillion rubledollars 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Basket Weaving, Furniture Restoration, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. 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 10,818 rubledollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines, the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs, Durm Ekruteak Nazgurth is the self-declared God of all Den, and Durm Ekruteak Nazgurth has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Den's national animal is the malicious Osiran shadow hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is the Update.

Den is ranked 118,112^th in the world and 22^nd in Fat beagle for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 41.11 Effective Tax Rate.