The Australian Poacher of Dirk Dinkum is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Dirk Dinkum with a fair hand, and notable for its rum-swilling pirates, smutty television, and state-planned economy. The compassionate, democratic population of 3.489 billion Dirk Dinkums 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Muncie. The average income tax rate is 89.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but inefficient Dirk Dinkumian economy, worth 192 trillion Dirks 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. Average income is 55,033 Dirks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

People have become comfortably numb, there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees, the nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage, and kindhearted Dirk Dinkums generously pay taxes for citizens of other countries. Crime is totally unknown. Dirk Dinkum's national animal is the Zabado, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dirk Dinkum is ranked 326,904^th in the world and 6^th in The Duchy of Krakow for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.