The United Socialist States of Dembuma is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 969 million Dembumen are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuleba. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Dembuman economy, worth 21.4 trillion fuleras 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 led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 22,113 fuleras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

One lone government employee can be seen hunting for the elusive stray white dog, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds, and the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dembuma's national animal is the sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Dembuma is ranked 260,244^th in the world and 482^nd in Starlight for Smartest Citizens, with 20.66 quips per hour.