The Dancia and Istaria of Danelaw Scandinavia is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Nicholas Starks with an even hand, and renowned for its compulsory military service, ubiquitous missile silos, and devotion to social welfare. The quiet, industrious population of 12.94 billion Danelaw Scandinavians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Alarine. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Danelaw Scandinavian economy, worth a remarkable 1,515 trillion Accas a year, is quite specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 117,152 Accas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages, motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours, vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction, and mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Danelaw Scandinavia's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Germanium-Tempel Christianity.

Danelaw Scandinavia is ranked 14,474^th in the world and 322^nd in The East Pacific for Most Cheerful Citizens, with 53.84 Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full.