The Dictatorship of Duby is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Adalard Romano with an iron fist, and renowned for its avant-garde cinema, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 6.506 billion Dubyians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Romagrad. The average income tax rate is 66.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Dubyian economy, worth 556 trillion florins a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 85,563 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices, businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation, Harry Potter conventions are closely watched by the government for any signs of 'dueling', and travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Duby's national animal is the Cougar, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Duby is ranked 31,319^th in the world and 147^th in Conch Kingdom for Healthiest Citizens, with 7.9 bananas ingested per day.