The United Communes of Dyl is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 10.089 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Dylian economy, worth a remarkable 1,451 trillion Gold bars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 143,829 Gold bars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Angry men scowl at each other across chess boards, ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack, not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric, and the only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers. Crime is totally unknown. Dyl's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dyl is ranked 9,415^th in the world and 74^th in The Leftist Assembly for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 436.14 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.