The Republic of Duretta is a titanic, safe nation, ruled by Naomi Keating with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate population of 14.101 billion Durettans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Si-an. The average income tax rate is 53.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Durettan economy, worth 849 trillion Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 60,217 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

College students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, if someone says there's plenty of living space in Duretta they're lyin', politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament, and concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Duretta's national animal is the blue bird-of-paradise, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Duretta is ranked 94,505^th in the world and 3^rd in ACA for Most Developed, scoring 62.83 on the Human Development Index.