The Gnarly Waves of Surfer Dude is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Surfer Prime with an iron fist, and renowned for its state-planned economy, restrictive gun laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.531 billion Surfers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Surf City. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish A Surfer economy, worth 61.5 trillion Surf Boards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Woodchip Exports, Automobile Manufacturing, and Information Technology. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 24,315 Surf Boards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery, glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, immigration test hopefuls are taught immigrant blood is purple, and soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Surfer Dude's national animal is the A Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Surfer Prime.

Surfer Dude is ranked 126,530^th in the world and 8^th in Ultimate Potato Republic for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 1,878.93 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.