The Non-Democratic Republic of Verderiesdre is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Maria with an iron fist, and notable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 10.453 billion Verderians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The large, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berevesk. The average income tax rate is 97.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Verderian economy, worth a remarkable 2,489 trillion Sherlings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 238,116 Sherlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts, gossip magazines have pictures of Maria sunbathing on the beach with political rivals, dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming, and prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verderiesdre's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Nothing.

Verderiesdre is ranked 3,955^th in the world and 141^st in The North Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 3,062.38 on the Clooney Contribution Index.