The People's Republic of Dragging is a large, cultured nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic population of 91 million Draggingians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 59.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Draggingian economy, worth 2.76 trillion Frees 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 slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Book Publishing, Basket Weaving, and Pizza Delivery. 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 30,295 Frees, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural, sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour, schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students, and party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises. Crime is totally unknown. Dragging's national animal is the Wombat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dragging is ranked 31,364^th in the world and 155^th in Refugia for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 894.73 on the Clooney Contribution Index.