The Republic of Dereistic is a gargantuan, genial nation, remarkable for its unlimited-speed roads, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 12.822 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 240,067 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten, people have become comfortably numb, rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements, and nude art is becoming wildly popular. Crime is totally unknown. Dereistic's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dereistic is ranked 760^th in the world and 14^th in the South Pacific for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 5,878.71 on the Clooney Contribution Index.