The Republic of Dereistic is a gargantuan, safe nation, notable for its museums and concert halls, keen interest in outer space, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.789 billion Dereisticians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hockley. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Dereistician economy, worth a remarkable 3,078 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 highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 240,709 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators, the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common, and military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives. Crime is totally unknown. Dereistic's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dereistic is ranked 289,298^th in the world and 5,399^th in the South Pacific for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -26.38 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.