The Confederacy of TheDelta is a gargantuan, cultured nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, avant-garde cinema, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.197 billion TheDeltans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government prioritizes Education, with Welfare, Environment, and Healthcare also on the agenda, while Spirituality and Defense aren't funded at all. The average income tax rate is 23.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong TheDeltan economy, worth a remarkable 1,386 trillion Delta Dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Retail. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 85,622 Delta Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.5 times as much as the poorest.

Selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork, the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime, future leaders of TheDelta regularly dismiss pressing political issues when available options don't conform to their worldview, and voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low. Crime is totally unknown. TheDelta's national animal is the Phoenix, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

TheDelta is ranked 14,199^th in the world and 809^th in Lazarus for Nicest Citizens, with 27.03 average smiles per day.