The Kingdom of West Vin Dapongdommul is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Karthi Naran with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, public floggings, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.248 billion Dapongdommuls 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kapilaghat. The average income tax rate is 71.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dapongdommul economy, worth 104 trillion dapons a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 83,948 dapons, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, and there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. West Vin Dapongdommul's national animal is the Tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

West Vin Dapongdommul is ranked 258,655^th in the world and 748^th in Concord for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.