The State of Death Walking is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its burgeoning deer population. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 29.872 billion Death Walkers hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.2%.

The very strong Death Walkingian economy, worth 902 trillion betales a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 30,197 betales, with the richest citizens earning 7.5 times as much as the poorest.

Euthanasia is legal, voting is voluntary, all tariffs have been abolished, and Death Walking has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime is a problem. Death Walking's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Death Walking is ranked 237,075^th in the world and 1^st in Death Walking for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 1,043.49 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.