The Peoples United Communes of Dakran is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Representative Vadim Ivanovitch with a fair hand, and renowned for its sprawling nuclear power plants, unlimited-speed roads, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 25.206 billion Dakranians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dakran City. The average income tax rate is 90.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dakranian economy, worth a remarkable 4,096 trillion Raints a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 162,526 Raints, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake, the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish, search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country, and jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration. Crime is totally unknown. Dakran's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Secularism.

Dakran is ranked 3,902^nd in the world and 1^st in Dakrans Shed for Most Pacifist, with 159.95 cheeks turned per day.