The Cyan Zombie Eggbeaters of Dan Maku is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by the Wizard of Yendor with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, avant-garde cinema, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful, devout population of 21.004 billion Dan Makuans enjoy great individual freedoms in everything except elections, which, where they exist at all, are populist shams for a dictatorship government that has no intention of ever giving up power.

The minute, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sokoban. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 1.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Dan Makuan economy, worth a remarkable 3,381 trillion zorkmids a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Gambling, and Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 161,006 zorkmids, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 663,532 per year while the poor average 25,721, a ratio of 25.8 to 1.

Not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric, the hills are alive with the sound of ringtones, children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse, and intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works. Crime, especially youth-related, is a major problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Dan Maku's national animal is the Cinderace, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yet Another Stupid Death.

Dan Maku is ranked 10,188^th in the world and 2^nd in Last Remote for Most Beautiful Environments, with 1,571.46 pounds of wildlife per square mile.