The Empire of Dissection is a colossal, orderly nation, remarkable for its parental licensing program, compulsory gun ownership, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 2.79 billion Dissectionians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 67.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Dissectionian economy, worth 247 trillion kronor a year, is quite specialized and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Woodchip Exports, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 88,741 kronor, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 293,900 per year while the poor average 20,014, a ratio of 14.7 to 1.

Taxmen are issued platinum-cap designer boots to kick bankrupted Dissectionians when they're down, raccoons are plump and satiated, Leader reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes, and many in Dissection are born in the purple. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dissection's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Dissection is ranked 280,310^th in the world and 34^th in Encyclopaedia Metallum for Most Cultured, scoring 57 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.