The Republic of Paul Desmond is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, enslaved workforce, and enforced nudity. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 955 million Paul Desmondians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Healthcare, International Aid, and Public Transport are also considered important, while Defense and Social Policy aren't funded at all. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 24.2%.

The powerhouse Paul Desmondian economy, worth 55.0 trillion Pauls a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Pizza Delivery, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is 57,551 Pauls, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 310,498 per year while the poor average 5,535, a ratio of 56.1 to 1.

The steaks are too high for ambassadors to butcher foreign relationships, prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments, artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common, and unemployment rates have skyrocketed as businesses abandon the country in search of cheap labour. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Paul Desmond's national animal is the Desmond, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Paul Desmond is ranked 101,077^th in the world and 1,253^rd in Artificial Solar System for Most Extreme, scoring 23.52 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.