The Holy Empire of Dukna is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its public floggings, daily referendums, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 12.508 billion Duknans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kili. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Duknan economy, worth a remarkable 1,800 trillion Dukers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 143,951 Dukers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, therapists can always squeeze in another house-call, a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to Duknan politicians, and the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dukna's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Judaism.

Dukna is ranked 246,319^th in the world and 28^th in New Western Atlantic for Nicest Citizens, with 1.34 average smiles per day.