The Republic of Diamond Head is a gargantuan, orderly nation, notable for its state-planned economy, soft-spoken computers, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 16.853 billion Diamond Headians 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, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.4%.

The all-consuming Diamond Headian economy, worth a remarkable 1,460 trillion fractions 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, broadly diversified black market in Uranium Mining, Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 86,663 fractions, with the richest citizens earning 7.3 times as much as the poorest.

Convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines, a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied poodle, and citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Diamond Head's national animal is the poodle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Diamond Head is ranked 154,456^th in the world and 1^st in Hawaii Island for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 360.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.