The Republic of Docklands Light Railway 1 is a colossal, safe nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, devout population of 9.905 billion Docklands Light Railway 1ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Public Transport. The average income tax rate is 24.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Docklands Light Railway 1ian economy, worth 413 trillion marks a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Furniture Restoration industry, with major contributions from Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Cheese Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 41,730 marks, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The Docklands Light Railway 1 Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings, citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts, and a life spent suffering in silence is considered noble. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Docklands Light Railway 1's national animal is the fox, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Docklands Light Railway 1 is ranked 133,682^nd in the world and 106^th in The Western Isles for Most Patriotic, with 11.88 flags saluted per person per day.