The Holy Empire of Durmengrad at Updates End is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and ubiquitous missile silos. The cynical population of 3.769 billion Durmengrad at Updates Endians 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 large, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 51.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Durmengrad at Updates Endian economy, worth 84.5 trillion rubledollars 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 a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 22,411 rubledollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle, morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom, lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs, and it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Durmengrad at Updates End's national animal is the hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Durmengrad at Updates End is ranked 118,221^st in the world and 5^th in Warzone Tomb of the Giants for Nicest Citizens, with 13.62 average smiles per day.