The Republic of Paradise-By The Dashboard Light is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, ubiquitous missile silos, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, devout population of 1.642 billion Paradise-By The Dashboard Lightians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 69.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Paradise-By The Dashboard Lightian economy, worth 175 trillion pounds a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 106,812 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 342,449 per year while the poor average 25,271, a ratio of 13.6 to 1.

Friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns, the Paradise-By The Dashboard Lightian government is the world's largest NGO, comatose jurors are the defense's favorite, and the government airlifts sacrificial lambs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Paradise-By The Dashboard Light's national animal is the crocodile, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Paradise-By The Dashboard Light is ranked 106,088^th in the world and 6^th in Meat Loaf for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 3,146.17 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.