The Holy Violet Fluff Infection of Darcania is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Zephyr kul Sanguine with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.36 billion Darcanians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Klarliert. The average income tax rate is 88.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Darcanian economy, worth 931 trillion dracs a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Information Technology. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 89,929 dracs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Tourists are forbidden to enter Native Darcanian lands, whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Darcanian Embarrassments, maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords, and welfare funding has recently gone through the roof. Crime is totally unknown. Darcania's national animal is the dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Weldyrglyr.

Darcania is ranked 2,356^th in the world and 1^st in floof for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 223.92 Bank.