The Vassal Sultanate of Koopahari Desert is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Sultan Selim with an iron fist, and remarkable for its teetotalling pirates, flagrant waste-dumping, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 4.599 billion Desert Landers 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 government is primarily concerned with Industry, although Administration, Law & Order, and Public Transport are also considered important, while Social Policy and Environment aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mushro. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Desert Lander economy, worth 645 trillion Gold Coins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 140,445 Gold Coins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 722,753 per year while the poor average 14,906, a ratio of 48.5 to 1.

Suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence, those who cut young children are told to cut it out, the roads are virtually falling apart, and compass sales have gone south. Crime is pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Koopahari Desert's national animal is the Black Desert Hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Astrotheology.

Koopahari Desert is ranked 120,831^st in the world and 3^rd in Valkia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 2,288.58 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.