The Dictatorship of Depressed Nation is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its frequent executions, ban on automobiles, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.132 billion Depressed Nationians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Depressed Kids. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 74.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Depressed Nationian economy, worth 552 trillion Bits 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. 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 an impressive 176,545 Bits, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 603,621 per year while the poor average 37,963, a ratio of 15.9 to 1.

Romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars, the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli, money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution, and people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Depressed Nation's national animal is the Money, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Depressed Nation is ranked 248,413^th in the world and 9,873^rd in the South Pacific for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -19 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.