The Free Land of Dankzig is a large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The democratic population of 101 million Dankzigers 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 juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 33.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The Dankziger economy, worth 4.48 trillion greens a year, is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Retail, and Book Publishing. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 44,319 greens, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low, the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed, political shows are fit for purpose, and the dance skills of Leader are said to be almost as subversive as their politics. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Dankzig's national animal is the ganjalope, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dankzig is ranked 68,616^th in the world and 63^rd in Canada for Most Cultured, scoring 69 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.