The Calamity of Dotrion is a huge, efficient nation, notable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 521 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 Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Opal. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 40.0%.

The very strong Dotrionian economy, worth 36.3 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 69,631 tropes, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 217,934 per year while the poor average 17,061, a ratio of 12.8 to 1.

Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots, investigative reports into the government's latest violation of civilian rights are stored in the fiction aisle, toast never burns but always has a weird chemical taste, and children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces. 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 90,948^th in the world and 4,467^th in Lazarus for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 105.39 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.