The Republic of -Dola- is a mammoth, efficient nation, renowned for its keen interest in outer space, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 8.95 billion -Dola-ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Environment. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 59.1%.

The thriving -Dola-ian economy, worth 665 trillion yen 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Book Publishing. 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 74,318 yen, with the richest citizens earning 6.1 times as much as the poorest.

Frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines, young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield, the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots, and travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air -Dola- flights to avoid the pay lavatories. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. -Dola-'s national animal is the Dola-Tomo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

-Dola- is ranked 23,261^st in the world and 16^th in Remembrance for Largest Black Market, with 118 trillion Standard Monetary Units.