The Republic of The Sleeping Duck 10 is a mammoth, safe nation, remarkable for its smutty television, infamous sell-swords, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.73 billion Sleeping Duck 10ians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 43.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Sleeping Duck 10ian economy, worth 647 trillion pounds a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 112,923 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Pro-democracy protesters are shot on sight by state police, looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities, East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy', and police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Sleeping Duck 10's national animal is the falcon.

The Sleeping Duck 10 is ranked 285,267^th in the world and 28^th in Boston for Nicest Citizens, with 2.76 average smiles per day.