The Democratic Republic of Poker Ocidental is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, avowedly heterosexual populace, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 400 million Poker ocidentalians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kapi. The average income tax rate is 31.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Poker Ocidentalian economy, worth 29.6 trillion Pkrs a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Information Technology, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 73,941 Pkrs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

All fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon, bike rage is all the rage, scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied Lobo, and young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Poker Ocidental's national animal is the Lobo, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Poker Ocidental is ranked 69,253^rd in the world and 163^rd in Lily for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 110.38 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.