The Void of Dustwind is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Dusty Dustican with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and flagrant waste-dumping. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 34.416 billion Dustwindians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Industry and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Palace of Dust. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Dustwindian economy, worth an astonishing 14,479 trillion gold dusts a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Soda Sales, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an amazing 420,708 gold dusts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The poorest Dustwindians live in 'the stacks', there's more than one way to skin a potato, fair play is a sportsbook refusing to pay what it owes, and those who sing the national anthem off-key have the key thrown away. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Dustwind's national animal is the scorpion, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sufferology.

Dustwind is ranked 306,416^th in the world and 296^th in 10000 Islands for Most Primitive, scoring -398.57 on the Scary Big Number Scale.