The Matriarchy of Drachmia is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Thēa the Divine with a fair hand, and notable for its deadly medical pandemics, ubiquitous missile silos, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.779 billion Drachmians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Xagnak. The average income tax rate is 76.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Drachmian economy, worth 305 trillion smecks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 109,898 smecks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques, bad decisions are made very quickly, boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers', and saying 'Hi Guys' to a mixed gender group of people at work is a fireable offense. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Drachmia's national animal is the Blue Footed Boobie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Drachmia is ranked 30,198^th in the world and 1,716^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 80 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.