The Confederation of Delphia is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Prime Minister Ava De Pauw with a fair hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.932 billion Delphians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Zaan. The average income tax rate is 91.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Delphian economy, worth 244 trillion Euros a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 126,444 Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go, the news is showing footage of Prime Minister Ava De Pauw bullying an old man to the point of tears, Prime Minister Ava De Pauw is too busy listening to praise to get any work done, and the government subsidises medicines of mass destruction. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Delphia's national animal is the peacock, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Reformed Christianity.

Delphia is ranked 21,375^th in the world and 324^th in Europe for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 269.73 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.