The Town of Death Valley Junction is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Amargosa Opera House Inc with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, absence of drug laws, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, cheerful population of 11.263 billion Death Valley Junctionians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Death Valley Junction. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 91.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Death Valley Junctionian economy, worth a remarkable 1,811 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. Average income is an impressive 160,858 dollars, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 463,854 per year while the poor average 44,282, a ratio of 10.5 to 1.

The nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy, warfare increasingly resembles a video game, law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students, and TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Death Valley Junction's national animal is the desert tortoise, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Paganism.

Death Valley Junction is ranked 105,537^th in the world and 2^nd in Death Valley for Most Patriotic, with 14.53 flags saluted per person per day.