The Republic of Lightning Dasher is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its burgeoning Pony population. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 9.879 billion Lightning Dasherians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, International Aid, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 26.5%.

The Lightning Dasherian economy, worth 407 trillion Euros a year, is quite specialized and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Gambling. Average income is 41,225 Euros, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.6 times as much as the poorest.

Crime is moderate. Lightning Dasher's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lightning Dasher is ranked 164,387^th in the world and 437^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Primitive, scoring -62.45 on the Scary Big Number Scale.