The Republic of DR-1 is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, avant-garde cinema, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 26.159 billion DR-1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 53.1%.

The strong DR-1ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,470 trillion $$s a year, is quite specialized and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 56,205 $$s, with the richest citizens earning 5.7 times as much as the poorest.

Legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench, skateparks can be found in every city, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. DR-1's national animal is the Dolly Varden, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

DR-1 is ranked 205,344^th in the world and 11^th in BLITZKRIEG for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 52.8 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.