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The Holy Red Domain of D-I-R-E is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Sir Crazy with an even hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, devout population of 3.78 billion Direnians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of McMurdo. The average income tax rate is 29.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Direnian economy, worth 187 trillion Taps a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Furniture Restoration, and Uranium Mining. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 49,540 Taps, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, every week is blindness awareness week, and there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. D-I-R-E's national animal is the Dire Wolf and its national religion is The Hand of the Cold Lord.

D-I-R-E is ranked 119,228^th in the world and 23^rd in Antarctica for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 670.22 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.