The Federation of New Dansa is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Sovereign Clementine Oladi with an iron fist, and notable for its digital currency, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.879 billion New Dansans 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 large, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Willowmere. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 76.5%.

The frighteningly efficient New Dansan economy, worth 333 trillion petals a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Basket Weaving. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 177,342 petals, with the richest citizens earning 8.6 times as much as the poorest.

New Dansan women are all tied up in tubal litigation, teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough, talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses, and forgotten trend connoisseurs turn their nose at one wrinkle. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. New Dansa's national animal is the goliath thresher shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Omnialism.

New Dansa is ranked 64,205^th in the world and 60^th in The Western Isles for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 148.92 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.