The Gay Chillroom of Dendrobium is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Primus Inter Pares with a fair hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.591 billion Dendrobiumians 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 government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dendrobium Amplium. The average income tax rate is 90.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The thriving Dendrobiumian economy, worth 571 trillion nobiles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is 86,763 nobiles, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance, men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them, viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows, and producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dendrobium's national animal is the giant atlas moth, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Godsinianism.

Dendrobium is ranked 291,704^th in the world and 442^nd in Thaecia for Rudest Citizens, with 12.21 insults per minute.