The Friend-Enemy Distinction of Desperaux is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Divine Glory with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, compulsory military service, and rampant corporate plagiarism. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 13.704 billion badasses 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 tiny, corrupt, liberal, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient badass economy, worth a remarkable 6,901 trillion Faustian bargains a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Soda Sales. Average income is a breathtaking 503,617 Faustian bargains, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 4,683,342 per year while the poor average 4,961, a ratio of 944 to 1.

Kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes, garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids, in pet stores nationwide eagles are growing in popularity, and parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Desperaux's national animal is the eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Desperaux is ranked 293,337^th in the world and 2^nd in Tenna for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3.72 law-abiding acts per hour.