The Old Queendom of Durakem is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Queen Anai with an even hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate population of 18.003 billion Durakemites enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The medium-sized, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Environment, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sentinel. The average income tax rate is 77.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Durakemite economy, worth a remarkable 2,728 trillion Cookies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 151,534 Cookies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating, interest in globalism never flags, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, and the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines. Crime is totally unknown. Durakem's national animal is the Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Stargazing.

Durakem is ranked 288,241^st in the world and 11,111^th in Balder for Most Primitive, scoring -540.7 on the Scary Big Number Scale.