The Republic of Daniel18 is a colossal, cultured nation, remarkable for its smutty television, ritual sacrifices, and compulsory gun ownership. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 8.669 billion Daniel18ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 20.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Daniel18ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,266 trillion dollars 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. 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 an impressive 146,146 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 603,531 per year while the poor average 23,267, a ratio of 25.9 to 1.

Soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes, children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet, thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses, and in court almost every witness is a hostile witness. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Daniel18's national animal is the wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Daniel18 is ranked 34,396^th in the world and 7^th in New Bilderberg Group for Most Beautiful Environments, with 790.89 pounds of wildlife per square mile.