The Dangers of Perilous and Looming is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, state-planned economy, and restrictive gun laws. The cynical population of 8.52 billion Perilous and Loomingians 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 medium-sized, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 39.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Perilous and Loomingian economy, worth 91.8 trillion marks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient black market in Tourism, Information Technology, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Automobile Manufacturing. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 10,778 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain, the Hanging Gardens account for half of Perilous and Looming City's water use, man-love is banned in the name of His love, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Perilous and Looming's new capital. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Perilous and Looming's national animal is the kiwi, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Perilous and Looming is ranked 267,787^th in the world and 6^th in Levilion for Highest Poor Incomes, with 10,474.61 Standard Monetary Units.