The Everybody Wants To Be A Cat of Dakota is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Salem Skollvaldr with an even hand, and notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, complete lack of prisons, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, devout population of 4.607 billion Dakotans, 4.365 billion of whom are zombies, are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Environment, and Education. The average income tax rate is 9.3%.

The very strong Dakotan economy, worth 310 trillion C10H15Ns a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 51,729 C10H15Ns, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

Jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity, the education system is famed for its taxing exams, quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces, and newspapers are celebrating Salem Skollvaldr saving over a million cats from trees. Crime is a major problem, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Dakota's national animal is the black cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Judaism.

Dakota is ranked 3,073^rd in the world and 60^th in the Rejected Realms for Most Primitive, scoring 152.32 on the Scary Big Number Scale.