The Republic of The Sleeping Duck 4 is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its unlimited-speed roads, parental licensing program, and compulsory gun ownership. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 6.076 billion Sleeping Duck 4ians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 62.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Sleeping Duck 4ian economy, worth 448 trillion bitcoins 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. 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 73,807 bitcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages, saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech, and young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Sleeping Duck 4's national animal is the kangaroo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The Sleeping Duck 4 is ranked 77,894^th in the world and 5^th in Newlandia for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 1,656.29 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.