The Most Serene Republic of Delight is a gargantuan, genial nation, renowned for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 10.529 billion Delightists enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, liberal, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Elathuria. The average income tax rate is 91.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Delightian economy, worth 973 trillion Brass Buttons a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is 92,414 Brass Buttons, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions, if there's something strange in your neighborhood you call Brancaland, and 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Delight's national animal is the Death Meadow Dragon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Delight is ranked 245,770^th in the world and 6,758^th in the Rejected Realms for Largest Manufacturing Sector, scoring zero on the Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index.