The United Communes of Dyl is a massive, cultured nation, notable for its daily referendums, pith helmet sales, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.857 billion Dylians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 95.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Dylian economy, worth 240 trillion Denars 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an impressive 129,414 Denars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy, invading armies are given hard glares for their cheek, and the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks. Crime is totally unknown. Dyl's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dyl is ranked 228,045^th in the world and 377^th in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Retail Industry, scoring -11.63 on the Shrinkwrap Consignment Productivity Index.