The Republic of Darmen is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by President Sebastian Elliott with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, daily referendums, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 25.439 billion 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 enormous, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Scott City. The average income tax rate is 96.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Darmeni economy, worth a remarkable 4,448 trillion Dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Woodchip Exports, and Gambling. Average income is an impressive 174,874 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Happiness is all being miserable together, the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great Darmeni Desert, protest songs are the nation's de facto anthems, and mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Darmen's national animal is the German Shepherd, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Christianity.

Darmen is ranked 52,782^nd in the world and 15^th in Rushmore for Highest Wealthy Incomes, with 253,410 Standard Monetary Units.