The United Socialist States of Depro is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Cutupa Rato Rucas with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, democratic, devout population of 1.683 billion Rudadepros 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, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Casvo Rossio. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Deproan economy, worth 107 trillion vufors 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 mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Book Publishing. Average income is 63,894 vufors, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper, nothing gets the party jumping like Cutupa Rato Rucas specifying how high, and banning party poppers has been a real party pooper. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Depro's national animal is the fenpus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Depro is ranked 232,238^th in the world and 402^nd in The Leftist Assembly for Largest Retail Industry, scoring -13.49 on the Shrinkwrap Consignment Productivity Index.