The Looking for Dinsdale State of Spiny Norman is a colossal, orderly nation, ruled by Dinsdale Piranha with an iron fist, and notable for its public floggings, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical population of 9.902 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. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Spiny Normanian economy, worth a remarkable 1,204 trillion Coconuts a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 121,607 Coconuts, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, Spiny Normanians are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna, and consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a 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 220,544^th in the world and 1^st in Anti West Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring -5.48 on the Clooney Contribution Index.