The Friend-Enemy Distinction of Desperaux is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Divine Glory with an iron fist, and remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, infamous sell-swords, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.856 billion badasses are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient badass economy, worth a remarkable 7,033 trillion Faustian bargains a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 507,624 Faustian bargains, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,721,068 per year while the poor average 4,994, a ratio of 945 to 1.

A degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics, the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition, open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost, and drive-by spoilers are an increasingly common crime. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Desperaux's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Desperaux is ranked 449^th in the world and 1^st in Tenna for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring 11,960.02 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.