The Community of Derodia is a large, cultured nation, renowned for its public floggings, absence of drug laws, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 118 million Derodians 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 large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 53.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Derodian economy, worth 2.45 trillion Cells 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 dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Trout Farming, and Book Publishing. Average income is 20,790 Cells, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Towns are often run by puppets, the bourgeoisie are asked nicely to hand over the means of production, all recreational drugs are legal, and Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Derodia's national animal is the Tiger, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Derodia is ranked 55,671^st in the world and 138^th in Horizon for Most Cultured, scoring 71 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.