The Overwhelming Flock of Heard of Baby Ducks is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Quacker Jack with an iron fist, and renowned for its frequent executions, public floggings, and aversion to nipples. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 9.382 billion ducks 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 relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Long Duck Island. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 29.7%.

The frighteningly efficient duck economy, worth a remarkable 2,594 trillion Bread Crumbs a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 276,573 Bread Crumbs, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Governments opposing Heard of Baby Ducks are beset by rebels, sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour, harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments", and weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Heard of Baby Ducks's national animal is the Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Aduckism.

Heard of Baby Ducks is ranked 27,490^th in the world and 97^th in Forest for Lowest Crime Rates, with 84.27 law-abiding acts per hour.