The Great northern NationState of Delark is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Emergency government with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, avant-garde cinema, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 778 million Delarkians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Education, and Administration are also considered important, while Environment isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Manila. The average income tax rate is 57.7%.

The Delarkian economy, worth 62.8 trillion Delarkian marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 80,772 Delarkian marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.5 times as much as the poorest.

Emergency government has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw, cleaners are very careful not to bump into the big red button on Emergency government's desk, war criminals are given full state funerals, and advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Delark's national animal is the wingless flying hippo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Delark is ranked 269,654^th in the world and 8^th in the region of ducks for Nicest Citizens, with 0.6 average smiles per day.