The Sultanate of Durn is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, vat-grown people, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 1.344 billion Durnians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The tiny, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 4.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Durnian economy, worth 172 trillion amrks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Retail industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 128,062 amrks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 536,580 per year while the poor average 19,892, a ratio of 27.0 to 1.

Prematurely retired barristers twitch in anxiety when they talk about their courtroom experiences, the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality, and paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Durn's national animal is the quail, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Durn is ranked 165,346^th in the world and 622^nd in Talonia for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,137.43 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.