The Peoples United Communes of Dakran is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Representative Vadim Ivanovitch with a fair hand, and notable for its smutty television, sprawling nuclear power plants, and unlimited-speed roads. The compassionate, democratic population of 23.592 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, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Healthcare, Administration, and Environment also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Law & Order are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dakran City. The average income tax rate is 89.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dakranian economy, worth a remarkable 3,775 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 160,050 Raints, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass, animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs, a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum, and the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks. 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 11,811^th in the world and 1^st in Dakrans Shed for Lowest Crime Rates, with 98.09 law-abiding acts per hour.