The State of Darling Scarp is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by the Governor with an even hand, and remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 22.669 billion Darling Scarpians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The minute, pro-business government, or what there is of one, is dominated by the Department of Industry, with Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Welfare are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The powerhouse Darling Scarpian economy, worth 961 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Furniture Restoration, Retail, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 42,424 betales, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 154,081 per year while the poor average 8,316, a ratio of 18.5 to 1.

Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, the youth vote is only counted when kindergarten teachers ask who drew the best picture, social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content, and graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail. Crime is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Darling Scarp's national animal is the deer, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Darling Scarp is ranked 189,629^th in the world and 8^th in Western Australia for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.92 kickbacks per hour.