The Dauphin of Daled IV is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Salia with an even hand, and remarkable for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The democratic, devout population of 6.483 billion Allasomorphs are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Command Headquarters. The average income tax rate is 75.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but underdeveloped Allasomorph economy, worth 182 trillion Chocolates a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Information Technology. Average income is 28,180 Chocolates, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Transgender and agender are on the education agenda, Salia is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII', and obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Daled IV's national animal is the Patient, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Daled IV is ranked 182,095^th in the world and 120^th in United Earth Space Probe Agency for Most Primitive, scoring -65.5 on the Scary Big Number Scale.