The Republic of Dereistic is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.704 billion Dereisticians 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 enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hockley. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Dereistician economy, worth a remarkable 3,052 trillion dollars 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 Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 240,239 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians, there's never enough space in space, customs officers pretend not to hear shouts of "HELP LET ME OUT!" emerging from diplomatic bags, and the nation has nearly as many history museums as Dereisticians. Crime is totally unknown. Dereistic's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dereistic is ranked 4,918^th in the world and 115^th in the South Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 116.88 law-abiding acts per hour.