The Kingdom of Dragoder is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Ao Kuang with an even hand, and renowned for its ban on automobiles, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate population of 1.348 billion Dragoderians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Drachenstadt. The average income tax rate is 82.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Dragoderian economy, worth 115 trillion Scales 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 Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is 85,329 Scales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome, court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point, digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dragoder's national animal is the Komodo dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Dragoder is ranked 14,261^st in the world and 113^th in Refugia for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,274.78 pounds of wildlife per square mile.