The Non-Democratic Republic of Verderiesdre is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Maria with an iron fist, and remarkable for its smutty television, national health service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 10.496 billion Verderians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The large, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government prioritizes Industry, although Education, Welfare, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Spirituality receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berevesk. The average income tax rate is 97.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Verderian economy, worth a remarkable 2,500 trillion Sherlings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 238,277 Sherlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Every week is blindness awareness week, sections of the police receive paramilitary training, adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives, and scaffolding is built around scaffolding to give safe access. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verderiesdre's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Nothing.

Verderiesdre is ranked 4,847^th in the world and 243^rd in The North Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 571.97 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.