The Black Lucky Holy Christmas of Durmengrad is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Santa St Patrick with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, parental licensing program, and daily referendums. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 13.844 billion denizens are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Durmengrad. The average income tax rate is 39.9%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Durmengradian economy, worth a remarkable 1,049 trillion gold bar candy canes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 75,811 gold bar candy canes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.8 times as much as the poorest.

Fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding", families burn Santa St Patrick's latest official photograph to keep warm, voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot, and activists are attempting to repeal Moore's Law. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Durmengrad's national animal is the zombie reindeer pony leprechaun, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Violetism.

Durmengrad is ranked 164,432^nd in the world and 3^rd in Fat beagle for Largest Welfare Programs, scoring 967.76 on the Safety Net Mesh Density Rating.