The Republic of Dereistic is a colossal, cultured nation, notable for its smutty television, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.633 billion Dereisticians enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The enormous, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hockley. The average income tax rate is 97.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Dereistician economy, worth a remarkable 1,592 trillion dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 184,470 dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, some paycheques only arrive every 12 to 24 weeks, pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime is totally unknown. Dereistic's national animal is the turtle, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Dereistic is ranked 6,648^th in the world and 203^rd in the South Pacific for Most Efficient Economies, scoring 100.19 on the Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index.