The Colony-State of Dackians is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate population of 586 million Dackians 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 relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Duckburg. The average income tax rate is 24.1%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dackian economy, worth 56.7 trillion Golden Thingies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 96,719 Golden Thingies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued, police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit, almost half of the child population live rough on the streets, and courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant Dackians. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dackians's national animal is the duck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Dackians is ranked 19,624^th in the world and 4^th in THE W0RLD for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 6,115.75 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.