The Society of Diuturnitas is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by R with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 903 million Diuturnitarians 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 government prioritizes Administration, with Healthcare, Education, and Environment also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Urbs Diuturna. The average income tax rate is 58.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Diuturnitary economy, worth 50.2 trillion Currencies a year, is dominated by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 55,586 Currencies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused, abortions are routinely performed in the nation's hospitals, octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it, and the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Diuturnitas's national animal is the Animal, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Diuturnitas is ranked 20,016^th in the world and 536^th in the South Pacific for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,027.76 pounds of wildlife per square mile.