The Friendly Game of Dogs Playing Poker is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The democratic population of 45.719 billion Dogs Playing Pokerians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Public Transport, and International Aid. The average income tax rate is 71.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The enormous but inefficient Dogs Playing Pokerian economy, worth a remarkable 1,185 trillion chips 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, highly specialized black market in Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, Gambling, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 25,926 chips, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Dogs Playing Poker's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region and military funding has been stripped back. Crime is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dogs Playing Poker's national animal is the royal flush, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dogs Playing Poker is ranked 1^st in the world and 1^st in 100 Nations of Conquest for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring zero on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.