The Republic of Donsalia is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mary Saromet with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, smutty television, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 3.971 billion Donsalians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Samdita. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Donsalian economy, worth 617 trillion Parans a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 155,597 Parans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The question "please would you...?" is usually laden with passive aggression, religious education is a new government priority, creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, and protestors are soaking piles of Parans in blood to make a point about government incomes. Crime is totally unknown. Donsalia's national animal is the Owl, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Donsalia is ranked 6,571^st in the world and 351^st in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 147 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.