The Purchasing Agent of Dicarla is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by General-Secretary Arge Barge with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, pith helmet sales, and suspicion of poets. The devout population of 4.25 billion Dicarlans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Socialist Rottenton. The average income tax rate is 65.0%.

The very strong Dicarlan economy, worth 293 trillion Territorial Talers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 69,066 Territorial Talers, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.0 times as much as the poorest.

Lion-reed-vulture-hand-reed-mouth is how General-Secretary Arge Barge is spelt now, the only record being broken at sporting events is the highest death toll, newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent, and 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dicarla's national animal is the Territorial Doggo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Catholicism.

Dicarla is ranked 216,878^th in the world and 14^th in Infrastructure for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 273.67 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.