The Colony of Douglania is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Trillian with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, sprawling nuclear power plants, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.523 billion Douglanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adamsburg. The average income tax rate is 83.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Douglanian economy, worth 190 trillion Florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 124,990 Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm, the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster, a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up, and the thrash metal version of the national anthem is topping charts. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Douglania's national animal is the Turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Arthurism.

Douglania is ranked 8,202^nd in the world and 2^nd in Empires Forever United for Most Cultured, scoring 125 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.