The Empire of Deman Kalan is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by The Supreme Maharaja with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory military service, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.031 billion Deman Kalanians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order and Administration also on the agenda, while Welfare and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Imperium City. The average income tax rate is 92.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Deman Kalanian economy, worth 399 trillion kronor 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 Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 196,522 kronor, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

A small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went, politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads, the nation's navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas, and military instructors tire of being asked for another bedtime story by seven-year-old conscripts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Deman Kalan's national animal is the panther, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is The Cult of the Maharajah.

Deman Kalan is ranked 4,594^th in the world and 42^nd in Confederation of Corrupt Dictators for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 12,861.71 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.