The Empire of Dakenia is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Dakota with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, lack of airports, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, devout population of 8.924 billion Dakkians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Grand Etrea. The average income tax rate is 85.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Dakkian economy, worth 912 trillion Bugs 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 dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 102,242 Bugs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them, it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists, and international terrorists often get their weapons supply in Dakenia. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dakenia's national animal is the Arthropleura, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dakenia is ranked 21,624^th in the world and 2^nd in UwU Lands for Smartest Citizens, with 65.94 quips per hour.