The Disputed Territories of Dust Devil Lands is a mammoth, safe nation, ruled by Dusty Roads with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, public floggings, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed population of 6.012 billion Dust Devil Landsians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Pulverulent Place. The average income tax rate is 41.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Dust Devil Landsian economy, worth 241 trillion Whirlwinds 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, 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 40,249 Whirlwinds, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

Tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects, shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities, idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs, and beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dust Devil Lands's national animal is the Tasmanian Devil, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities, and its national religion is N95 Filter Masking.

Dust Devil Lands is ranked 253,217^th in the world and 14^th in Save The Planet for Highest Average Incomes, with 40,249.87 Standard Monetary Units.