The United Socialist States of Du Mans is a small, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 26 million Anarchists enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order also on the agenda, while International Aid and Welfare receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.4%.

The strong Du Mansian economy, worth 1.57 trillion francs a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 60,529 francs, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 310,299 per year while the poor average 6,474, a ratio of 47.9 to 1.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, military spending recently hit a new high, surveillance cameras are banned, and the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Du Mans's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Du Mans is ranked 87,298^th in the world and 320^th in Europe for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 2,403.62 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.