The Grand and Most Serene Duchy of Unimaginable Doom is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Grand Ducal Highness Vandervahn Chistu with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, barren, inhospitable landscape, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 34.312 billion Duxians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed, including voting. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Astor Citadel. The average income tax rate is 98.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Dux economy, worth a remarkable 9,623 trillion Gold Sovereigns a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an amazing 280,471 Gold Sovereigns, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, losing your sock key may require surgical intervention, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Unimaginable Doom's national animal is the Sable Hawk, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Unimaginable Doom is ranked 852^nd in the world and 27^th in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 1,112.31 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.