The Confederacy of Down up down is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Dream City with an iron fist, and remarkable for its zero percent divorce rate, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 1.931 billion Down up downians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Inception. The average income tax rate is 74.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Down up downian economy, worth 135 trillion picks 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, highly specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Retail, and Information Technology. 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 70,093 picks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction, nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers, it's been a banner year for local vexillology, and the news is showing footage of Dream City bullying an old man to the point of tears. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Down up down's national animal is the reca, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Upism.

Down up down is ranked 246,734^th in the world and 27^th in New Deathland Storage for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -4.11 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.