The Republic of Dereistic is a colossal, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, smutty television, and complete lack of prisons. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 5.923 billion Dereisticians enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The enormous, liberal government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Environment, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hockley. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Dereistician economy, worth 907 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 quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 153,260 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths, roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it, it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Dereistic, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime is totally unknown. Dereistic's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dereistic is ranked 2,413^th in the world and 59^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 18,417.73 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.