The Capitalist Dictatorship of Thaurbog Daestlectia is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Lawson Mckee with an iron fist, and renowned for its parental licensing program, compulsory military service, and prohibition of alcohol. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 833 million Daestlectians 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 juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sorvok. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Daestlectian economy, worth 85.7 trillion Concord-Thaurbog Dolllars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Gambling. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 102,828 Concord-Thaurbog Dolllars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 477,726 per year while the poor average 13,301, a ratio of 35.9 to 1.

Women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft, the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Thaurbog Daestlectia's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Thaurbog Daestlectia is ranked 44,410^th in the world and 67^th in Concord for Most Extreme, scoring 33.37 on the Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index.