The Colony of Droalena is a gargantuan, cultured nation, renowned for its rum-swilling pirates, feral children, and complete lack of public education. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 16.046 billion Droalenans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Welfare, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 26.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Droalenan economy, worth 804 trillion Shiny Green Things a year, is highly specialized and led by the Retail industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 50,163 Shiny Green Things, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.7 times as much as the poorest.

Residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes, the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups, children are raised bilingual from an early age, and it is common to see Maxémon Trainer listed on Droalenan resumés. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Droalena's national animal is the Spider, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Droalena is ranked 281,351^st in the world and 10,544^th in Osiris for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring -88.65 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.