The Second Socialist Republic of Doundaly is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Kenton Rowe with an iron fist, and renowned for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 12.696 billion Doundalians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pratka. The average income tax rate is 49.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Doundalian economy, worth a remarkable 2,024 trillion galds a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 159,460 galds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Governors and mayors are back to begging for allowances from the nanny state, it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, scientists are terrified of fabulous new breakthroughs, and a recent political speech drew the ire of nerds everywhere after the speaker claimed that Darth Vader was Harry Potter's father. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Doundaly's national animal is the Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Doundaly is ranked 238,179^th in the world and 3,206^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Overall Tax Burden, scoring 0.75 on the Hayek Index.