The Dominion of Dormanston is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its digital currency, smutty television, and compulsory military service. The compassionate, democratic population of 244 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 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Dormanstonian economy, worth 7.84 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 32,146 Exchange Notes, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations, frat-house partying has become the national pastime, government expenses are beyond compare, and all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers. 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 96,692^nd in the world and 828^th in The Communist Bloc for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 87.25 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.