The Friend-Enemy Distinction of Desperaux is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Divine Glory with an iron fist, and notable for its pith helmet sales, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.711 billion badasses enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient badass economy, worth a remarkable 6,911 trillion Faustian bargains a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 504,119 Faustian bargains, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,688,012 per year while the poor average 4,966, a ratio of 944 to 1.

East Lebatuckese luxury goods are plundered by the working class of Desperaux, nano-eagles are the current fad sweeping the nation, parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park, and adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Desperaux's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Desperaux is ranked 293,860^th in the world and 2^nd in Tenna for Nicest Citizens, with 0.08 average smiles per day.