The Fairy Tale Kingdom of Dancing Dragons is a gargantuan, safe nation, ruled by Lady Laura with an iron fist, and renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, national health service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 24.084 billion Dragons are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Chateau Mondragon. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The all-consuming Dragonien economy, worth a remarkable 2,686 trillion Scudoes a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 111,548 Scudoes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.1 times as much as the poorest.

EpiPen sales have skyrocketed, the legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes, academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks, and the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dancing Dragons's national animal is the Orsetto, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Magical Realism.

Dancing Dragons is ranked 282,738^th in the world and 54^th in Nudist Dreamland for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -13.32 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.