The Borderlands of Dovekie is a gargantuan, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, state-planned economy, and absence of drug laws. The democratic population of 20.05 billion Dovekieans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Public Transport, Environment, and Social Policy. The average income tax rate is 56.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but sluggish Dovekiean economy, worth 445 trillion fish fingers a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Basket Weaving, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Gambling. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 22,208 fish fingers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The tenet of free speech is held dear, married couples must call each other "darling" or risk a fine, citizens select which government department gets their income tax fish fingers each year, and political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dovekie's national animal is the auk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dovekie is ranked 44,170^th in the world and 744^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Black Market, with 27.6 trillion Standard Monetary Units.