The Republic of Durlia is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Prime Minister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 23.719 billion Durlians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Abyrmagg. The average income tax rate is 92.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Durlian economy, worth a remarkable 3,911 trillion Argyns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 164,905 Argyns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Art is not complete without a touch of alizarin blood and titanium sweat, only those who apply can study applied maths, yawning is a sure sign of unemployment, and entomologists flock to Abyrmagg for its remarkable gadfly population. Crime is totally unknown. Durlia's national animal is the red deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Durlia is ranked 174,880^th in the world and 293^rd in Europe for Largest Black Market, with 765 billion Standard Monetary Units.