The Despotic Dictatorship of Despoticania is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Despot with an iron fist, and remarkable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, anti-smoking policies, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 37.449 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 medium-sized, 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 income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Despoticanian economy, worth an astonishing 45,495 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, Book Publishing, and Retail. 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 1,214,854 Despollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler', citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Despoticania, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, and minority children find the right answer in school tests is always the most insulting one. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Despoticania's national animal is the Winged Unicorn Pig, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Transcendental Hatred.

Despoticania is ranked 31^st in the world and 1^st in The Alliance of Dictators for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 39,481.73 on the Gilded Widget Scale.