The Queen's State of Damacourt is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-working, democratic population of 38.131 billion Damacourtians are free to succeed or fail in life on their own merits; the successful tend to enjoy an opulent (but moralistic) lifestyle, while the failures can be seen crowding out most jails.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Social Policy. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The powerhouse Damacourtian economy, worth a remarkable 1,995 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 52,321 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 174,145 per year while the poor average 11,713, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

Politicians preface their speeches with a declaration that any resemblance to speeches given by individuals living or dead is purely coincidental, citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature', the art of conversation has been rediscovered, and corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians. Crime is a problem. Damacourt's national animal is the deer.

Damacourt is ranked 253,218^th in the world and 388^th in 0000 for Lowest Crime Rates, with 50.3 law-abiding acts per hour.