The Overseas Province of Esportivan Darmen is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Provincial President Christian Renault with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, ritual sacrifices, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 13.211 billion Esportivan Darmenis are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cayo Costa. The average income tax rate is 51.2%.

The all-consuming Esportivan Darmenian economy, worth a remarkable 1,036 trillion Darmeni Dollars a year, is led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Cheese Exports, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 78,471 Darmeni Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

The national symbol of Esportivan Darmen is now always featured on a skewer, hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts, nations that kill an Esportivan Darmeni can expect a strongly worded letter, and TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Esportivan Darmen's national animal is the German Shepherd, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christiantiy.

Esportivan Darmen is ranked 89,409^th in the world and 34^th in Esportiva for Highest Average Incomes, with 78,471.99 Standard Monetary Units.