Dominican Republic was a Central American country. It was on the same island as Haiti, occupying the eastern part. The island had the Caribbean Sea to the south and the North Atlantic Ocean to the north, and was relatively close to the Bermuda Triangle. It was also close to Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.^[1] Supposedly, the island's subtropical climate was beneficial for the bones of elderly women.^[2] There were flights connecting the Dominican Republic with New York City,^[3] but rural, wild areas of Dominican Republic like El Siebo were hardly accessible.^[2]

The majority religion was the Catholic Church, with significant cultural and spiritual penetration.^{[4][note 1]}

19th-century Dominican Christophe Glapion married widow Marie Laveau and gave her five children, the first of them named after her mother, before he died in 1835. These children had in turn ten children in total, leading to some historians erroneously report that Glapion and Laveau had had fifteen children.^[5]

In recent times, the bureaucracy of the Dominican Republic facilitated the procedures to carry out a divorce, even for marriages that had been officiated in the United States. The Wasp travelled to Dominican Republic to easily divorce Henry Pym, while he remained in the States.^[3]

Several times, the American vigilante Punisher visited the Dominican Republic tracking criminals to execute them,^[6] and he was linked to multiple homicides in the country. Along with Honduras and Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic was one of the countries, outside of his native US, where the Punisher had caused the most deaths (after assuming the identity of the Punisher).^[7]

In the 20th century, a number of Dominicans migrated to the United States and became American citizens, thou in New York City many of them could barely get by, which led to their children having trouble ever since their student days; this was the case of^[8] New Yorker Hector Santiago Ruiz, a petty criminal and son of Dominican migrants.^[8][9] In more recent times, important communities of Dominican immigrants thrived in areas of the United States, such as Washington Heights, Manhattan, where they shared the community with Cubans and Salvadorans. Several of them helped raise America Chavez when she was adopted into the Santana family, which caused her to later show a special interest in Hispanic-American immigrants.^[10]

Among the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic, there was Omikami, an old blacksmith woman who made weapons and armor for the assassin Elektra, and who in her old age moved to the outskirts of El Siebo to install her forge.^[2]

The mutant Ana Maria Magdalena Shwartz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. As a child, Shwartz showed, along with her powers, wounds reminiscent of the stigmata of Jesus Christ. Believing that Ana was stigmatic, her grandmother sold the girl to a Catholic orphanage. The Catholic Church, realizing that Ana had powers of her own, trained her and turned her into a superhuman agent of the Vatican City under the alias Stigmata. Shwarz came to have dual citizenship, Dominican and Vatican.^[4]

• Santo Domingo^{[4][note 2]}
• El Siebo^[2]

• Ana Shwartz (previously)^[4]
• Ana Shwartz's grandmother^[4]
• Omikami^[2]
• Christophe Glapion (deceased)^[5]
• Hector Santiago Ruiz's parents (migrated to the United States)^[8]

• The demonym for Dominican Republic citizens is Dominican, which is also used to refer to members of the Dominican Order, a Catholic religious community which includes 15th-century inquisitor Jakob Sprenger.^[11]