The Dictatorship of Kickback is a colossal, pleasant nation, renowned for its enslaved workforce, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 4.34 billion Kickbackians 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.8%.

The strong Kickbackian economy, worth 234 trillion Delta Eagles a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 54,114 Delta Eagles, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 243,172 per year while the poor average 7,437, a ratio of 32.7 to 1.

The government raises tariffs on a weekly basis, the housing market has collapsed like an overbaked Brancalandian souffle, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and sick Kickbackians are hair today and gone tomorrow. Crime is a problem. Kickback's national animal is the Kitsune, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kickback is ranked 93,283^rd in the world and 1^st in Mazandaran for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 102.71 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.