The Republic of Durlia is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 23.244 billion Durlians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Abyrmagg. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Durlian economy, worth a remarkable 3,765 trillion Argyns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,991 Argyns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No one over the age of 35 has the slightest clue what is going on, military training in Durlia emphasizes the tactical advantages of stabbing backs, Durlians refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, and citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts. Crime is totally unknown. Durlia's national animal is the red deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Durlia is ranked 304,147^th in the world and 803^rd in Europe for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.46 kickbacks per hour.