The Republic of Durlia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with a fair hand, and notable for its otherworldly petting zoo, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.972 billion Durlians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Durlia Metropolis. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Durlian economy, worth a remarkable 1,444 trillion pounds a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 161,009 pounds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students abandon classrooms for online education, no one born in Durlia can fix a leaky faucet, the people of Durlia are renowned for their nihilistic attitudes, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime is totally unknown. Durlia's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Durlia is ranked 125,534^th in the world and 793^rd in Europe for Most Pro-Market, scoring 25.33 on the Rand Index.