The Sublime Zsardom of Daulmark is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Zsar Johannes-Ottokar IV with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, zero percent divorce rate, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, cheerful population of 13.669 billion Daulmarkians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Öslitz. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Daulmarkian economy, worth a remarkable 3,923 trillion Kuras a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 287,008 Kuras, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Pushy mums tell their kids to be doctors and engineers but steer them away from being penniless lawyers, the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines, sweet-toothed Daulmarkians have been left penniless by the VAT on candy, and a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Daulmark's national animal is the Osprey, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Sancticism.

Daulmark is ranked 374^th in the world and 2^nd in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Most Developed, scoring 99.38 on the Human Development Index.