The People's Republic of Duravia is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by President Toivo Kallionpää with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, compulsory military service, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, democratic population of 766 million Duravians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Durapolis. The average income tax rate is 83.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Duravian economy, worth 83.2 trillion Duravian dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 108,562 Duravian dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, pausing for applause during a speech is seen as a form of censorship, and citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Duravia's national animal is the bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Duravia is ranked 82,884^th in the world and 302^nd in The Internationale for Most Extreme, scoring 20.75 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.