The Dictatorship of Dastro is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 569 million Dastroans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.0%.

The powerhouse Dastroan economy, worth 47.7 trillion Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 83,896 Dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 366,840 per year while the poor average 12,104, a ratio of 30.3 to 1.

Epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent, one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for Leader's office, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry, and international trade can be a pain to deal with. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force. Dastro's national animal is the Dollar, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Dastro is ranked 95,132^nd in the world and 7^th in Danu for Highest Drug Use, scoring 185 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.