The Dictatorship of Depressed Nation is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its parental licensing program, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 3.411 billion Depressed Nationians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Depressed Kids. The average income tax rate is 51.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Depressed Nationian economy, worth 592 trillion Bits a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 173,780 Bits, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.1 times as much as the poorest.

Pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card, a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park, schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech, and meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Depressed Nation's national animal is the Money, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Depressed Nation is ranked 26,827^th in the world and 629^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,666 on the Gilded Widget Scale.