The Constitutional Monarchy of Danubia Pannonia is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Franz Joseph I with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, suspicion of poets, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 3.413 billion Greater Austrians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Vienna. The average income tax rate is 64.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Danubia Pannonian economy, worth 74.0 trillion Kroner 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, quite specialized black market in Woodchip Exports, Retail, Book Publishing, and Arms 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 21,687 Kroner, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight, executions are marked by quiet dignity and maybe a final round or two of whist, dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws, and immigrant herding has become a national pastime. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Danubia Pannonia's national animal is the eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Danubia Pannonia is ranked 31,851^st in the world and 239^th in Europeia for Nicest Citizens, with 19.27 average smiles per day.