The Colony of Dirt Tower is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its daily referendums, ritual sacrifices, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, devout population of 795 million Dirt Towerians 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 minute government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Defense, Spirituality, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 5.0%.

The Dirt Towerian economy, worth 33.9 trillion Diamonds 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 Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. 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 42,629 Diamonds, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 193,021 per year while the poor average 5,779, a ratio of 33.4 to 1.

Chipped paint can see a building condemned, glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide, the 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite, and Dirt Tower is renowned for its lax gun laws. Crime is moderate, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Dirt Tower's national animal is the Zombie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dirt Tower is ranked 282,044^th in the world and 9^th in IxCraft for Most Developed, scoring 49.23 on the Human Development Index.