The Nuts and Bolts of Decacon is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Malachi with an even hand, and notable for its anti-smoking policies, frequent executions, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed population of 19.249 billion Ten-Fingers are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The 10th District. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ten-Fingered economy, worth a remarkable 1,467 trillion Decis a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. Average income is 76,226 Decis, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Twelfth-generation Ten-Fingers are deported for not knowing Malachi's childhood nickname, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, and infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Decacon's national animal is the Ten-Fingered Alligator, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Decacon is ranked 85,214^th in the world and 323^rd in Europeia for Highest Average Incomes, with 76,226.15 Standard Monetary Units.