The United Kingdom of Kazad-dum is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The cynical population of 1.033 billion Dwarves are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 30.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Kazad-dumian economy, worth 38.6 trillion Mithrils a year, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Cheese Exports, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 37,390 Mithrils, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts, it is illegal to make racist remarks in public, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kazad-dum's national animal is the Bolrog.

Kazad-dum is ranked 273,384^th in the world and 49^th in Middle Earth for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -7.46 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.