The Republic of Durrnil 17 is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 4.453 billion Durrnil 17ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 38.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Durrnil 17ian economy, worth 377 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Tourism, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is 84,691 marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 249,598 per year while the poor average 22,612, a ratio of 11.0 to 1.

Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies, the well-off amuse themselves by organizing upstairs-downstairs stories within their second homes, soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers, and titles of nobility are packaged with Durrnil 17ian citizenship in invite-only auctions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Durrnil 17's national animal is the giraffe, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Durrnil 17 is ranked 95,685^th in the world and 4^th in IDK da way for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.41 law-abiding acts per hour.