The Syndicated Corporations of Nedea is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Drake Fairtrade with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, sprawling nuclear power plants, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 20.86 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, with Industry also on the agenda, 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 7,819 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 374,844 Kredits, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 2,267,370 per year while the poor average 27,724, a ratio of 81.8 to 1.

Fifty years of pension funds can disappear in half a second, dark net forums trade the encryption keys to immortality, mandatory state-funded classes teach Libertarianism, and the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around DarkHaven. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Nedea's national animal is the Pony, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Nedea is ranked 740^th in the world and 2^nd in New Coalition of Nations for Largest Mining Sector, scoring 26,752.03 on the Blue Sky Asbestos Index.