The Republic of Duplicates is a titanic, orderly nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 15.25 billion Duplicatesians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business government is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.9%.

The strong Duplicatesian economy, worth 908 trillion currencies a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Woodchip Exports industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 59,553 currencies, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 378,901 per year while the poor average 3,866, a ratio of 98.0 to 1.

Summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police, bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination", Leader's office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader, and the people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Duplicates's national animal is the ditto, which can occasionally be seen sifting through garbage in the nation's cities.

Duplicates is ranked 316,499^th in the world and 6^th in Duplicates for Highest Average Tax Rates, with 5.95 Effective Tax Rate.