The Free Land of Duskari is a small, genial nation, renowned for its state-planned economy, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 23 million Duskari are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 74.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The imploded Duskarian economy, worth 166 billion Bits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Tourism, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 7,247 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned, interest in globalism never flags, families make most of their annual income from government benefits, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Duskari's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Duskari is ranked 186,792^nd in the world and 364^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 186.18 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.