The Spacefaring Society of Dhaeland is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 14.053 billion Dhaelanders 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Varisian City. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Dhaelandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,188 trillion Credits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 155,750 Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation, the nation's ambassadors often conduct their business in jail cells, the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists, and schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dhaeland's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Transhumanism.

Dhaeland is ranked 288,627^th in the world and 11,064^th in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 3,270.75 Standard Monetary Units.