The Grand Duchy of Dlax is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Grand Duke Arake Swemhat with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, fear of technology, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 23.52 billion Dlaxians 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 enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darm. The average income tax rate is 86.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dlaxian economy, worth a remarkable 2,812 trillion Okekas 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, quite specialized black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Pizza Delivery. 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 an impressive 119,583 Okekas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule, academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks, an endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc, and when it comes to flavor there's no gain without pain. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dlax's national animal is the camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dlax is ranked 44,871^st in the world and 4^th in Pax Britannia for Highest Average Incomes, with 119,583.34 Standard Monetary Units.