The Disputed Territories of Dumbach is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Prefect Flaithri Tinsh with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, triple-decker prams, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.321 billion Dumbachians 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, Administration, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 81.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dumbachian economy, worth a remarkable 2,647 trillion Ranecs a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Gambling, Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 144,532 Ranecs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ancestry test results arrive bundled with patent applications, killer credit ratings take real effort, hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities, and well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dumbach's national animal is the armadillo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Vorchism.

Dumbach is ranked 825^th in the world and 1^st in Celtia for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 21,860.46 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.