The United Socialist States of Ditorrente is a massive, efficient nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, anti-smoking policies, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 1.579 billion Ditorrenteans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Education, although Industry is also considered important, while Welfare and Environment receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 2.0%.

The thriving Ditorrentean economy, worth 159 trillion lire a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 101,120 lire, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 920,507 per year while the poor average 1,256, a ratio of 732 to 1.

All work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull, a cat may look at a king and a dude can look at an ass, the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, and all tariffs have been abolished. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Ditorrente's national animal is the porpoise, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Ditorrente is ranked 64,876^th in the world and 10^th in The Slumber for Highest Average Incomes, with 101,120.77 Standard Monetary Units.