The People's Republic of Direlia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Direl with an even hand, and notable for its national health service, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, devout population of 3.1 billion Direlians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Lunar Eternal Capital. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Direlian economy, worth 375 trillion Cings a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 121,054 Cings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers, it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, citizens insist that there's no law against standing downwind when marijuana crops are burned off, and grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps. Crime is totally unknown. Direlia's national animal is the Snake, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Direlia is ranked 154,518^th in the world and 19^th in Ridgefield for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 416.35 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.