The Banished Bad Boy of Joaquin DeSantos is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Joaquin DeSantos with an iron fist, and notable for its zero percent divorce rate, enforced nudity, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.909 billion Southsiders are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Southside. The average income tax rate is 71.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Southsider economy, worth 759 trillion Dollars 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Retail. 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 96,013 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

It turns out that money can buy you happiness, visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper, middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians, and it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Joaquin DeSantos's national animal is the Beaver, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Pop Tate-ism.

Joaquin DeSantos is ranked 160,419^th in the world and 3^rd in Riverdale for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring 484.51 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.