The Democratic Republic of United Normal Ducks is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by Thaddeus Duckus with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 5.468 billion Duckies love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Ducky Town. The average income tax rate is 78.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Ducky economy, worth 486 trillion Ducky Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,860 Ducky Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Tourists call Ducky beach towns "the fine coastline", criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program, cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors, and grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. United Normal Ducks's national animal is the Normal Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

United Normal Ducks is ranked 24,919^th in the world and 20^th in Hell for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 4,320.51 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.