The Republic of New Derse is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Arch Minister Tiff with a fair hand, and remarkable for its rum-swilling pirates, daily referendums, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic population of 2.141 billion New Dersites 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 Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Midnight City. The average income tax rate is 89.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming New Dersite economy, worth 245 trillion Boondollars a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Tourism, and Trout Farming. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 114,440 Boondollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance, the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. New Derse's national animal is the Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

New Derse is ranked 20,398^th in the world and 770^th in The North Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 89.39 law-abiding acts per hour.