The Empire of Derntill is a huge, efficient nation, remarkable for its avant-garde cinema, parental licensing program, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 348 million Dernts are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Law & Order, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Higeden. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 10.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Derntillian economy, worth 32.1 trillion Irns a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Uranium Mining, Gambling, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 92,254 Irns, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 307,567 per year while the poor average 20,603, a ratio of 14.9 to 1.

A handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation, theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good, an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth, and when shaking hands with foreign leaders Leader wears an armoured gauntlet. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. Derntill's national animal is the dove, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Derntill is ranked 171,883^rd in the world and 11^th in Inferno Stellaria for Lowest Crime Rates, with 59.33 law-abiding acts per hour.