The Calamity of Dotrion is a huge, safe nation, notable for its frequent executions, otherworldly petting zoo, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 675 million Dotrionians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Opal. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 42.0%.

The very strong Dotrionian economy, worth 47.0 trillion tropes a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is 69,666 tropes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 218,043 per year while the poor average 17,069, a ratio of 12.8 to 1.

Children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces, netizens fiercely argue over who loves Leader more, gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs, and untold millions of tropes are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dotrion's national animal is the Spinoaurus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Dotrion is ranked 271,680^th in the world and 14,233^rd in Lazarus for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -4.9 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.