The Despotic Dictatorship of Despoticania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by The Despot with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, aversion to nipples, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 29.812 billion Despoticanians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Despoticania Prime. The average income tax rate is 95.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Despoticanian economy, worth an astonishing 30,991 trillion Despollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 1,039,577 Despollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nobody thinks that the Godfather was bettered by Part 2, RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept, tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests, and political speeches always take place at sunset to a background of patriotic power ballads. Crime is totally unknown. Despoticania's national animal is the Winged Unicorn Pig, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Church of Transcendental Hatred.

Despoticania is ranked 148^th in the world and 3^rd in The Alliance of Dictators for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 48,217.89 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.