The Republic of The duck side of the force is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, parental licensing program, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 4.58 billion duck side of the forceans are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 62.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient duck side of the forcean economy, worth 516 trillion Duckcoins a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 112,714 Duckcoins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Many marriages go virtually unconsummated, cars are banned, politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests, and trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The duck side of the force's national animal is the Duck, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

The duck side of the force is ranked 41,656^th in the world and 72^nd in Artificial Solar System for Most Cultured, scoring 74 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.