The Holy Red Domain of D-I-R-E is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Sir Crazy with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.951 billion Direnians 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 government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of McMurdo. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 25.3%.

The very strong Direnian economy, worth 326 trillion Taps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 82,479 Taps, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 255,013 per year while the poor average 20,568, a ratio of 12.4 to 1.

Tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian, undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected, vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR, and one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for Sir Crazy's office. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. D-I-R-E's national animal is the Dire Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Hand of the Cold Lord.

D-I-R-E is ranked 161,365^th in the world and 25^th in Antarctica for Rudest Citizens, with 49.48 insults per minute.