The Empire of Out of Reach is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its digital currency, disturbing lack of elderly people, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.988 billion Out of Reachians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 64.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Out of Reachian economy, worth 410 trillion Duckcoins 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 Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, 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 an impressive 103,001 Duckcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.9 times as much as the poorest.

The nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, citizens must inform the government each time they have a haircut, shady doctors seem to have impeccable records, and warning signs caution Out of Reachians where they may fall off 'the edge of the world'. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Out of Reach's national animal is the Duck, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Out of Reach is ranked 31,337^th in the world and 10^th in Artificial Solar System for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 245.43 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.