The Empire of Dragon Isles is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Dave Lukewski with an iron fist, and renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, public floggings, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 28.908 billion Dragon Islandians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mashtuur City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 32.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Dragon Islandian economy, worth a remarkable 8,443 trillion Dragon credits a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 292,085 Dragon credits, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,170,090 per year while the poor average 48,923, a ratio of 23.9 to 1.

It turns out that trees grow on Dragon credits, home renovation projects take decades to complete, the army lives rent-free in foreigners' heads and houses, and people with dyslexia are told to tough through it. Crime is totally unknown. Dragon Isles's national animal is the Dragon, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cult of the Red Dragon.

Dragon Isles is ranked 1,060^th in the world and 31^st in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 364 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.