The Despotic Dictatorship of Despoticania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Despot with an iron fist, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 31.08 billion Despoticanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Despoticania Prime. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Despoticanian economy, worth an astonishing 33,297 trillion Despollars 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 a breathtaking 1,071,341 Despollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

On-duty Air Despoticania flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class, The Despot's new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success, the nation has nearly as many history museums as Despoticanians, and bicyclists are banned from major roads. Crime is totally unknown. Despoticania's national animal is the Winged Unicorn Pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Transcendental Hatred.

Despoticania is ranked 473^rd in the world and 8^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 40,011.61 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.