The Disputed Territories of Daro is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, compulsory military service, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical, devout population of 643 million Transkregonians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 75.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Lodamese economy, worth 16.1 trillion Kregonian Leaves a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving and Tourism. Average income is 25,101 Kregonian Leaves, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths, authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets, TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews, and the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, despite the fact that it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many laws. Daro's national animal is the Elysian King Moray, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Daro is ranked 268,036^th in the world and 91^st in Gay for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -8.83 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.