The Republic Empire Colony of Decoris is a gargantuan, efficient nation, renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, frequent executions, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 22.183 billion Republicans 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 minute government, or what there is of one, is effectively ruled by the Department of Defense, with Social Policy and Spirituality not funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Athens. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Republican economy, worth a remarkable 4,640 trillion Rounds a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 209,204 Rounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 681,613 per year while the poor average 48,340, a ratio of 14.1 to 1.

Only fully-fledged members of MENSA are allowed to vote, the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, and boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers. Crime is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Decoris's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is Christianity.

Decoris is ranked 293,418^th in the world and 18^th in Capitalist Libertarian Freedom Region for Lowest Crime Rates, with 3.79 law-abiding acts per hour.