The State of Das ilhas is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its frequent executions, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed population of 41.745 billion Das ilhasians 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 medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 24.0%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Das ilhasian economy, worth a remarkable 1,751 trillion betales a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 41,952 betales, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Those found guilty of illicit affairs are jailed, a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions, the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller, and Das ilhas has designated Capital Heights as its capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Das ilhas's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Das ilhas is ranked 143,426^th in the world and 1^st in Madeira for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 76.68 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.