The Syndicated Corporations of Nedea is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Drake Fairtrade with an iron fist, and remarkable for its frequent executions, digital currency, and keen interest in outer space. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 23.3 billion Nedeans are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The minute, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government, or what there is of one, prioritizes Defense, although Industry is also considered important, while Environment and Social Policy aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of DarkHaven. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Nedean economy, worth a remarkable 8,789 trillion Kredits a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Retail, and Gambling. Average income is an amazing 377,241 Kredits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,237,362 per year while the poor average 29,278, a ratio of 76.4 to 1.

The people's love for Drake Fairtrade is little more than self-preservation, engaged partners detail their fiancés' private lives in detail to prurient bureaucrats, only persecuted professionals need apply, and foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, probably because of the absence of a police force. Nedea's national animal is the Pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Nedea is ranked 204,798^th in the world and 15^th in New Coalition of Nations for Most Politically Free, scoring 19.29 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.