The State of Douglas Falls is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, keen interest in outer space, and complete lack of prisons. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 31.167 billion Douglas Fallsians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Social Policy, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 92.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Douglas Fallsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,740 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 55,848 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, billions of betales are being poured into a space program, The Governor has just been declared ruler of Douglas Falls in an international press conference, and they say that Douglas Fallsians made a dessert and called it peace. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Douglas Falls's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Douglas Falls is ranked 250,974^th in the world and 1^st in Big Ivy for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.03 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.