The Commonwealth of Dino discounty is a colossal, orderly nation, renowned for its soft-spoken computers, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 6.829 billion Dino discountyians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 55.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Dino discountyian economy, worth 505 trillion francs 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 large, well-organized black market in Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 74,053 francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants, enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity, smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour, and there's never enough space in space. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dino discounty's national animal is the dolphin, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Dino discounty is ranked 47,896^th in the world and 648^th in Jihad Army of the Emperor for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 153.54 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.