The River of Daugava is a massive, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, complete lack of prisons, and restrictive gun laws. The democratic population of 1.632 billion Daugavans are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. The average income tax rate is 48.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Daugavan economy, worth 39.9 trillion Large river risings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Retail, Trout Farming, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 24,428 Large river risings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products, politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing, tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists, and builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Daugava's national animal is the Belarus Latvia and Russia, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Daugava is ranked 224,374^th in the world and 28^th in Wikipedia for Most Corrupt Governments, with 1.31 kickbacks per hour.