The United Socialist States of Dugin is a tiny, cultured nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 18 million Duginians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 73.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The basket case Duginian economy, worth 309 billion Dugin-Rubels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Average income is 17,185 Dugin-Rubels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee, the government denies any involvement in the release of the Hot Load computer virus, military spending is on the increase, and the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dugin's national animal is the Bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dugin is ranked 93,986^th in the world and 449^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 987.06 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.