The United Socialist States of Debia is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The quiet, industrious population of 67 million Debians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 63.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Debian economy, worth 1.69 trillion Ducats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Pizza Delivery. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 25,260 Ducats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds, from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in Debia, it's all white elephants on parade, and Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Debia's national animal is the Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Debia is ranked 8,854^th in the world and 1^st in The Commons for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 8,904.98 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.