The Republic of Defendington is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Leader Franklin Sierra with a fair hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.735 billion Defenders are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Welfare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Tank Fort City. The average income tax rate is 65.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Defendingtonian economy, worth 93.7 trillion peaces 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 dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Woodchip Exports, and Book Publishing. Average income is 34,264 peaces, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Federal Council of Defendington has been announced as the new Head of State, the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, and the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Defendington's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Whatever we dont care.

Defendington is ranked 152,769^th in the world and 400^th in 10000 Islands for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 387.92 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.