The Colony-State of Dackians is a huge, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, public floggings, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 580 million Dackians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Duckburg. The average income tax rate is 24.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dackian economy, worth 56.2 trillion Golden Thingies a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 96,932 Golden Thingies, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising, the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy, everybody's got wood thanks to Leader, and traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dackians's national animal is the duck, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Dackians is ranked 299,709^th in the world and 62^nd in THE W0RLD for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring 237.74 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.