The Despotic Dictatorship of Despoticania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Despot with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, aversion to nipples, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 30.406 billion Despoticanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

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 97.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Despoticanian economy, worth an astonishing 32,084 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 1,055,205 Despollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, Despoticanians refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, and the once prosperous capital is in utter decline. 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 17,480^th in the world and 18^th in The Alliance of Dictators for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 6,579.84 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.