The United Socialist States of QDR is a huge, safe nation, notable for its public floggings, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 324 million Qierans 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, Administration, and Education. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Qierish economy, worth 6.51 trillion marks 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 Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Retail. Average income is 20,080 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ghost regiments exist only on paper, the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage, traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income, and tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. QDR's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

QDR is ranked 127,891^st in the world and 258^th in Refugia for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 844.02 on the Gilded Widget Scale.