The Community of Dane 2040 is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its smutty television, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 764 million Dane 2040ians 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, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 88.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Dane 2040ian economy, worth 68.4 trillion tokens 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 major contributions from Tourism. Average income is 89,488 tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, extreme political groups are outlawed, visiting the best Dane 2040ian restaurants requires keeping a visa on file, and noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law. Crime is totally unknown. Dane 2040's national animal is the robin, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dane 2040 is ranked 8,194^th in the world and 207^th in Europe for Safest, scoring 122.67 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.