The Free Land of Darmalan is a fledgling, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 5 million Darmalanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Defense, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 39.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The fragile Darmalanian economy, worth 131 billion guilders a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is broadly diversified, is led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Trout Farming, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. Average income is 26,285 guilders, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, organ donation is compulsory, and in-cite-ment never happens at tea parties. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Darmalan's national animal is the beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Darmalan is ranked 86,573^rd in the world and 59^th in Edoca for Most Corrupt Governments, with 20.96 kickbacks per hour.