The Holy Empire of Decimes is a large, safe nation, remarkable for its state-planned economy, public floggings, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 168 million Decimesians 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 72.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Decimesian economy, worth 2.57 trillion credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 15,327 credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, unfit police officers collapse while trying to capture unusually athletic criminals, the police double as repo men, and pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Decimes's national animal is the Cardinal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Decimes is ranked 123,700^th in the world and 27^th in womp for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 641.34 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.