The Matriarchy of The Life of Dolly is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Flight Patterns with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 3.325 billion Dollies are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dollywood. The average income tax rate is 34.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped a Dolly economy, worth 106 trillion platinum records a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Cheese Exports, and Information Technology. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,051 platinum records, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients, things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication, prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams, and Kindness has been named as The Life of Dolly's national religion. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Life of Dolly's national animal is the doggy parton, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Kindness.

The Life of Dolly is ranked 147,426^th in the world and 165^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 627.56 on the Gilded Widget Scale.