The Eldorian Nation-State of Durane is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Ashton Rodgers with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, anti-smoking policies, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 4.024 billion Duraneans 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 enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hammsburg. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.2%.

The powerhouse Duranean economy, worth 250 trillion demiagans a year, is led by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Uranium Mining, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 62,226 demiagans, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 217,574 per year while the poor average 12,933, a ratio of 16.8 to 1.

Convicts get out of jams easily, movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens, chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom, and wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Durane's national animal is the Cat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Atheism.

Durane is ranked 104,987^th in the world and 7^th in Federation of Eldoria for Lowest Crime Rates, with 67.24 law-abiding acts per hour.