The Aeonian Citadel of Darakin is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by Ashton Q Westchester III with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, daily referendums, and national health service. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 35.114 billion Darakini love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Darakin Citadel. The average income tax rate is 7.4%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Darakini economy, worth 152 trillion shmingels a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is mostly comprised of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, although the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 4,347 shmingels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Banning party poppers has been a real party pooper, a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street", the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem", and schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Darakin's national animal is the puma, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Darakin is ranked 240,026^th in the world and 8,096^th in the South Pacific for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -34.38 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.