The Readiness of Defcon 4 is a mammoth, orderly nation, renowned for its closed borders. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 9.477 billion Defcon 4ians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 14.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Defcon 4ian economy, worth 394 trillion baht a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Soda Sales, Retail, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,653 baht, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Leader's Twitcher account is typically used to share dolphin memes rather than government policy, the dolphin has a hungry look, prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments, and an iron curtain has descended around the nation. Crime is well under control, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Defcon 4's national animal is the dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Defcon 4 is ranked 157,182^nd in the world and 3^rd in Not The North Pole for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.