The Kingdom of Paladine Dragon King is a titanic, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, parental licensing program, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.715 billion Paladine Dragon Kingians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 67.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Paladine Dragon Kingian economy, worth a remarkable 1,480 trillion Gold Coins a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,442 Gold Coins, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Scientists take credit every time it rains in House Elegarth, school uniforms are compulsory, modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes, and financial investors are noting a boom in artillery. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paladine Dragon King's national animal is the Human, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Paladine Dragon King is ranked 37,932^nd in the world and 16^th in House Elegarth for Most Cultured, scoring 75 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.