The Republic of Holy Deseret is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Brigham Young with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The devout population of 1.79 billion Latter Day Saints 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 large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Zion. The average income tax rate is 56.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Latter Day Saint economy, worth 144 trillion Deseret Dollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Basket Weaving, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 80,815 Deseret Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.3 times as much as the poorest.

Court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs, bris parties are all the rage, garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau', and film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Holy Deseret's national animal is the Bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Mormonism.

Holy Deseret is ranked 72,119^th in the world and 133^rd in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,587.28 on the Gilded Widget Scale.