The Republic of Night Duck is a huge, safe nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, soft-spoken computers, and remarkably easy parental licensing program. The hard-nosed population of 789 million Night Duckians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 32.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Night Duckian economy, worth 33.6 trillion lire 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 black market in Soda Sales, Information Technology, Retail, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 42,588 lire, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys, stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings, and children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Night Duck's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Night Duck is ranked 195,610^th in the world and 14^th in After the Fall for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 450.83 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.