The Republic of Dedicated is a colossal, efficient nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, state-planned economy, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, devout population of 4.875 billion Dedicaters are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 32.6%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Dedicated economy, worth 452 trillion Dedications 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Information Technology, and Woodchip Exports. 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 92,742 Dedications, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime, knitters are arrested for carrying needles in their bags, elected officials who disagree with Leader have a lot of accidents, and citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dedicated's national animal is the Alien Dedicater, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Dedicatism.

Dedicated is ranked 161,417^th in the world and 8,610^th in Balder for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,257.78 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.