The Community of Dulcimer is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, free-roaming dinosaurs, and restrictive gun laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 556 million Dulcimerians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Trinity. The average income tax rate is 72.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Dulcimerian economy, worth 35.3 trillion Pods a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 63,437 Pods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that Dulcimer will pay them to stop, anti-government web sites are springing up, interest in globalism never flags, and the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dulcimer's national animal is the swan, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dulcimer is ranked 232,395^th in the world and 6^th in Polar South for Fattest Citizens, with 8.26 Obesity Rate.