The Looking for Dinsdale State of Spiny Norman is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Dinsdale Piranha with an iron fist, and notable for its ritual sacrifices, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 15.019 billion Spiny Normanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Piranha City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 83.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Spiny Normanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,987 trillion Coconuts a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Retail, Book Publishing, and Trout Farming. Average income is an impressive 132,355 Coconuts, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 410,568 per year while the poor average 32,851, a ratio of 12.5 to 1.

The poorest Spiny Normanians live in 'the stacks', Dinsdale Piranha's handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars, journalists listen to the money talk, and referenda are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Spiny Norman's national animal is the Dead Parrot, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Pythonism.

Spiny Norman is ranked 35,284^th in the world and 1^st in Anti West Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 132,355.55 Standard Monetary Units.