The Democratic Republic of Dryzia is a huge, safe nation, ruled by Darius Karthik with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 946 million Dryzians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Syagar. The average income tax rate is 85.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dryzian economy, worth 72.2 trillion Sencs a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Cheese Exports. Average income is 76,315 Sencs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal, incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables, people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size, and politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dryzia's national animal is the Crow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dryzia is ranked 101,839^th in the world and 4,148^th in The East Pacific for Most Authoritarian, with 715.77 milliStalins.