The United States of Dan Nation is a huge, socially progressive nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 748 million Dans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The minute, liberal, pro-business government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Defense, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.3%.

The strong Dan economy, worth 30.7 trillion Dancoins a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is quite specialized and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Information Technology, and Pizza Delivery. Average income is 41,038 Dancoins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 203,368 per year while the poor average 4,695, a ratio of 43.3 to 1.

Teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill, a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation, the government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association, and some say Leader has gone MAD after authorizing the development of apocalyptic biological weapons. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Dan Nation's national animal is the Dancat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Dan Nation is ranked 244,615^th in the world and 11^th in Nordana for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -6.63 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.