The Democratic Republic of Neratica is a mammoth, genial nation, ruled by The Prime Minister with a fair hand, and remarkable for its sprawling nuclear power plants, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 6.405 billion Neraticans hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nertania. The average income tax rate is 98.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Neratican economy, worth a remarkable 1,490 trillion nerats a year, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. Average income is an amazing 232,640 nerats, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.7 times as much as the poorest.

Construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground, Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, if you die during a restaurant meal the government will pick up the bill, and an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Neratica's national animal is the chicken-bear, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Neratica is ranked 119,249^th in the world and 4,934^th in Balder for Largest Populations, with 6.41 billion capita.