The Kingdom of Daskein is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its public floggings, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 206 million Daskeiners 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 large, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 63.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Daskeiner economy, worth 3.75 trillion thalers 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 mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. Average income is 18,218 thalers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered Daskeiner weed picker are way up, jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes, and sex changes are routinely performed at Daskein's hospitals. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Daskein's national animal is the peacock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Daskein is ranked 312,080^th in the world and 1,034^th in Carcassonne for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 372.02 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.