The Ziggy Stardust of David Bowie is a titanic, cultured nation, remarkable for its public floggings, keen interest in outer space, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.52 billion David Bowieans are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of London. The average income tax rate is 50.3%.

The frighteningly efficient David Bowiean economy, worth a remarkable 1,667 trillion changes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Gambling, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 133,195 changes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.7 times as much as the poorest.

Supervisors in David Bowie commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence, the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus, deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails, and tensions between the young and old have risen to record levels. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. David Bowie's national animal is the ziggy, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

David Bowie is ranked 279,740^th in the world and 4^th in Brooklyn for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -6 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.