The Republic of Dustinesia is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by President Stephen Isakov with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and daily referendums. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 6.137 billion Dustinesians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Barcelona. The average income tax rate is 43.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Dustinesian economy, worth 342 trillion florins a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,770 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin, the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them, people talk about things being better when men were men, and the New Barcelona State Museum is said to be haunted by ghastly musicians playing 'Nearer Violet to Thee'. Crime is totally unknown. Dustinesia's national animal is the eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Orthodoxy.

Dustinesia is ranked 258,767^th in the world and 39^th in United Commonwealth for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -5.51 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.