The Gnarly Waves of Surfer Dude is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Surfer Prime with an iron fist, and notable for its compulsory military service, parental licensing program, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.914 billion Surfers are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Surf City. The average income tax rate is 73.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The A Surfer economy, worth 100 trillion Surf Boards 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 led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Automobile Manufacturing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 52,461 Surf Boards, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room", the latest guided missile cruiser "Ship-1642" has received precisely zero column inches in the press, A Surfer political exiles populate the near abroad, and young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Surfer Dude's national animal is the A Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Surfer Prime.

Surfer Dude is ranked 145,643^rd in the world and 4^th in Ultimate Potato Republic for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,773.1 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.