The Kingdom of Destratus is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Someone with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, ritual sacrifices, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 9.127 billion Destratusians 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, moralistic government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Healthcare, and Education also on the agenda. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.8%.

The strong Destratusian economy, worth 620 trillion rubledollars 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 a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Beef-Based Agriculture, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Arms 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 68,030 rubledollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 223,511 per year while the poor average 15,526, a ratio of 14.4 to 1.

The working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes, some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them, pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi, and strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Destratus's national animal is the hawk, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Destratus is ranked 144,349^th in the world and 1^st in Laz Inc for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,816.92 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.