The Devilish Delinquent of Devious is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by santa claus with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, absence of drug laws, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 10.885 billion Deviousians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Deviousian economy, worth a remarkable 1,175 trillion cashes a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Retail, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 108,002 cashes, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 912,291 per year while the poor average 2,364, a ratio of 385 to 1.

Retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals, investigative journalism into politicians' misbehaviour has abruptly ended, airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path, and a milk bath costs more than bathing in money. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Devious's national animal is the bat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Devious is ranked 319,569^th in the world and 37^th in The Brotherhood of Malice for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -161.49 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.