The Grand Duchy of Dlax is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Grand Duke Arake Swemhat with an iron fist, and remarkable for its strictly enforced bedtime, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 18.308 billion Dlaxians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, with Law & Order, Social Policy, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darm. The average income tax rate is 79.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Dlaxian economy, worth a remarkable 2,005 trillion Okekas 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, quite specialized black market in Gambling, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. 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 109,562 Okekas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, the recently bereaved have plenty of time to mourn during their incarcerations, the military struggles with recruitment, and flamethrower-toting soldiers are also equipped with fire blankets and extinguishers. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dlax's national animal is the camel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dlax is ranked 280,517^th in the world and 26^th in Pax Britannia for Nicest Citizens, with 0.36 average smiles per day.