The Great Republic of Dumbases is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Eminem with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 3.872 billion Dumbasians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Civitas Aurea. The average income tax rate is 51.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dumbasesian economy, worth 673 trillion bands a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 173,922 bands, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

The regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb, all tariffs have been abolished, the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon", and diplomats are always trying to convince other nations to adopt l33t speak. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Dumbases's national animal is the Eric, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dumbases is ranked 16,209^th in the world and 917^th in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 99 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.