The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan DRA is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Nur Muhammad Taraki with an iron fist, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The cynical population of 3.746 billion Afghans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kabul. The average income tax rate is 67.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Afghani economy, worth 30.4 trillion Afghanis 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 a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Trout Farming and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 8,109 Afghanis, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, Afghanistan DRA has designated Kabul as its capital city, Nur Muhammad Taraki has just been declared ruler of Afghanistan DRA in an international press conference, and Islam has been named as Afghanistan DRA's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Afghanistan DRA's national animal is the Goat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Islam.

Afghanistan DRA is ranked 271,284^th in the world and 320^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -8.25 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.