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The State of Duffield Works is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and notable for its complete lack of public education, complete absence of social welfare, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 26.899 billion Duffield Worksians enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, liberal, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Industry, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Spirituality and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Westminster. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.2%.

The very strong Duffield Worksian economy, worth a remarkable 1,043 trillion betales a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Gambling, Book Publishing, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 38,796 betales, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 263,770 per year while the poor average 2,084, a ratio of 126 to 1.

The government is avowedly atheist, elections have been outlawed, Duffield Works has designated Westminster as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Duffield Works in an international press conference. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Duffield Works's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Duffield Works is ranked 126,912^th in the world and 1^st in Cockburn Town for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.