The Confederacy of Democratic Triber is a mid-sized, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The cynical population of 82 million Democratic Triberians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 69.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Democratic Triberian economy, worth 1.46 trillion rings a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. Average income is 17,825 rings, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prudishness is on the way out, everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist, hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have, and the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Democratic Triber's national animal is the sheep.

Democratic Triber is ranked 288,714^th in the world and 4^th in Nuevo Vancaduh for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -9.67 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.