The Free Land of Duskari is a large, orderly nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 134 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 Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 74.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Duskarian economy, worth 1.46 trillion 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 Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 10,896 Bits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals, relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly, stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence, and traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers. 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 270,849^th in the world and 736^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 662.3 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.