The Industrial Union of Danleon is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, cynical population of 7.685 billion Danleonians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Raad. The average income tax rate is 90.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Danleonian economy, worth 790 trillion Labor Vouchers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 102,915 Labor Vouchers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Raad Times is sold out, and scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Danleon's national animal is the Shire Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Danleon is ranked 70,939^th in the world and 93^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Populations, with 7.68 billion capita.