The Looking for Dinsdale State of Spiny Norman is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Dinsdale Piranha with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, enslaved workforce, and frequent executions. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 15.072 billion Spiny Normanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Piranha City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 82.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Spiny Normanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,999 trillion Coconuts a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 132,684 Coconuts, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 420,691 per year while the poor average 31,905, a ratio of 13.2 to 1.

Some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes, buildings are experiencing some new ten-ants, celebrity wrestlers thumb their nose at due process, and the nation was recently voted "most likely to betray its allies". Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spiny Norman's national animal is the Dead Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pythonism.

Spiny Norman is ranked 160,016^th in the world and 1^st in Anti West Pacific for Largest Black Market, with 983 billion Standard Monetary Units.