The Kingdom of Highdam is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by King Halvar the Builder with an iron fist, and remarkable for its infamous sell-swords, complete lack of prisons, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 1.831 billion Damians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Damholt. The average income tax rate is 31.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Damian economy, worth 129 trillion Logmarks 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, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. 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 70,975 Logmarks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's, there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every Damian grocery store, people eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare, and no one knows how to tie a reef knot. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Highdam's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Order of the Great Dam.

Highdam is ranked 104,091^st in the world and 7^th in VinCorp for Most Corrupt Governments, with 13.41 kickbacks per hour.