The Federation of The DAA is a titanic, efficient nation, renowned for its lack of airports, ritual sacrifices, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate, humorless, devout population of 12.117 billion DAAians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Industry, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 68.0%.

The frighteningly efficient DAAian economy, worth a remarkable 1,561 trillion greckels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Furniture Restoration. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 128,863 greckels, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 396,671 per year while the poor average 32,340, a ratio of 12.3 to 1.

Racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation, voting is voluntary, exterminators swarm DAAian homes, and the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The DAA's national animal is the Roach, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

The DAA is ranked 20,456^th in the world and 4^th in Boston for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring 32,474.28 on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.