The Equine State of Dakota Territories is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Lady Sparkles with an even hand, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, free-roaming dinosaurs, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic population of 7.764 billion Ponies 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 Education, Healthcare, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Stables. The average income tax rate is 93.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Equine economy, worth a remarkable 1,084 trillion Apple Seeds a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 139,672 Apple Seeds, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue", the government loves seeing the little people fight, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and one can wake up in Dakota Territories and have breakfast in Bigtopia. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dakota Territories's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Equestrianism.

Dakota Territories is ranked 287,595^th in the world and 6,185^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -504.47 on the Scary Big Number Scale.