The Republic of Ders Des Lourk is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 9.773 billion Ders Des Lourkians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Law & Order. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.6%.

The very strong Ders Des Lourkian economy, worth 456 trillion rubles a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 46,704 rubles, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 163,758 per year while the poor average 9,666, a ratio of 16.9 to 1.

When shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet, poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild, the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced, and women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft. Crime is a problem. Ders Des Lourk's national animal is the horse, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Ders Des Lourk is ranked 248,041^st in the world and 9,292^nd in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 254.41 pounds of wildlife per square mile.