The District of Twelve is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by proctor with an iron fist, and notable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 12.564 billion Twelveans 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of District City. The average income tax rate is 70.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Twelvean economy, worth 218 trillion aurums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Basket Weaving industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 17,398 aurums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes, Twelve has designated District City as its capital city, and Proctor has just been declared ruler of Twelve in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Twelve's national animal is the bovina, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Twelve is ranked 67,644^th in the world and 1^st in Romet II for Lowest Crime Rates, with 70.45 law-abiding acts per hour.