The Pickelhelm of Dwarf is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Fáfnir Longbeard with a fair hand, and renowned for its national health service, digital currency, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 4.32 billion Dwarves are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dwarf Fortress. The average income tax rate is 94.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Dwarfen economy, worth a remarkable 1,162 trillion ores a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Retail, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 269,093 ores, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,698,332 per year while the poor average 17,850, a ratio of 95.1 to 1.

'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech, and crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed. Crime is totally unknown. Dwarf's national animal is the Musk Ox, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Cult of the Mountain Lord.

Dwarf is ranked 43,686^th in the world and 16^th in Middle Earth for Most Politically Free, scoring 76.57 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.