The Delicacies of Ladies Dancing is a colossal, efficient nation, ruled by Darcey Bussell with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ritual sacrifices, parental licensing program, and disturbing lack of elderly people. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.492 billion Ladies Dancingians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Walsingham. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Ladies Dancingian economy, worth 892 trillion Slippers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is frequent. Average income is an impressive 119,123 Slippers, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 372,980 per year while the poor average 29,171, a ratio of 12.8 to 1.

The government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices, farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land, political commentators say that Darcey Bussell's fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped, and studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ladies Dancing's national animal is the Black Swan, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Dancing.

Ladies Dancing is ranked 281,624^th in the world and 12^th in 12 Days of Christmas for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -11.31 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.