The Democratic Republic of Apoar is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Bob Roed with an iron fist, and remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, public floggings, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.712 billion Apoarines 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Aporqn. The average income tax rate is 80.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Apoarin economy, worth 432 trillion marks 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 an impressive 159,394 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.3 times as much as the poorest.

Chemically brainwashed citizens praise Bob Roed's name on an hourly basis, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing, and patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Apoar's national animal is the dragon, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Crauism.

Apoar is ranked 289,231^st in the world and 3^rd in World of Dictatorships for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -13 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.