The Dominion of Dormanston is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its daily referendums, avant-garde cinema, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic population of 168 million Dormanstonians 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 Education, Administration, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 73.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Dormanstonian economy, worth 4.55 trillion Exchange Notes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 27,063 Exchange Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Going on a diet invalidates your passport, young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police, and young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dormanston's national animal is the Ant, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dormanston is ranked 257,715^th in the world and 862^nd in The Communist Bloc for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -7.75 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.