The Império of Demste is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 8.154 billion Demsteans 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 enormous government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of São José. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Demstean economy, worth 520 trillion Reais a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Retail. Average income is 63,776 Reais, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People typically base their votes on which party has the cutest logo, schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, every citizen is allowed exactly fifteen minutes of fame, and historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Demste's national animal is the Jaguar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catolicismo.

Demste is ranked 275,381^st in the world and 158^th in Corsair for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 25.68 on the Bus Surprisal Index.