The Frontier Justice of Deadwood is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Marshal Seth Bullock with a fair hand, and remarkable for its burgeoning cow population. The hard-working, democratic population of 15.349 billion Deadwood citizens are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Haven. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.2%.

The thriving Deadwoody economy, worth 791 trillion dollars a year, is led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 51,590 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 182,612 per year while the poor average 10,523, a ratio of 17.4 to 1.

New legislators take a week-long class entitled "Keeping Your Job: How to Avoid Offending Marshal Seth Bullock", formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming, the new Grand Inquisitor of Righteous Scientific Inquiry has ordered a surprising amount of hemlock, and Humongo-Mart's Beef 'n Cow Lasagne is a hit. Crime is a problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Deadwood's national animal is the cow, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Deadwood is ranked 76,187^th in the world and 4^th in Firefly for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 47,359.64 Standard Monetary Units.