The Democratic Republic of Discs is a mid-sized, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 93 million Discsians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government prioritizes Administration, although Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality isn't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 57.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Discsian economy, worth 4.17 trillion Rainbow Rocks a year, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 44,863 Rainbow Rocks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

School lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time, the Discsian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead, and orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Discs's national animal is the White Peacock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Discs is ranked 208,996^th in the world and 13^th in Ridgefield for Fattest Citizens, with 9.14 Obesity Rate.