The Protectorate of Australia DPR is a very large, efficient nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 433 million Australia DPRians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 30.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Australia DPRian economy, worth 26.8 trillion 4th Edition Trench Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Automobile Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 61,924 4th Edition Trench Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

The government is dead set on letting people rest in peace, raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists, there's some really clean windows in Australia DPRian houses, and fake beard sales are on the rise amongst female commuters. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Australia DPR's national animal is the Black Spotted Tabby Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Australia DPR is ranked 58,659^th in the world and 1^st in New Region oasis for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 17,904.99 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.