The Promise of Defend is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by The Defender with an even hand, and renowned for its burgeoning wolf population. The hard-nosed population of 24.276 billion Defendians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Defenderia. The average income tax rate is 46.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Defendian economy, worth 611 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Basket Weaving, and Gambling. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 25,201 Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government is seen to favor Catholics, Defenderism has been named as Defend's national religion, Defend has designated Defenderia as its capital city, and The Defender has just been declared ruler of Defend in an international press conference. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Defend's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Defenderism.

Defend is ranked 148,414^th in the world and 1^st in The African Republics for Most Corrupt Governments, with 3.24 kickbacks per hour.