The Grand Duchy of Da-Cunha is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Tristan Da-Cunha King with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, free-roaming dinosaurs, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 4.351 billion Da-Cunhans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Da-Cunhan economy, worth 521 trillion Sterlings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 119,754 Sterlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space, and the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Da-Cunha's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Misotheism.

Da-Cunha is ranked 13,915^th in the world and 859^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 342.93 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.