The Community of Nethervale is a massive, cultured nation, ruled by Jason the First with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.735 billion Nethervaleans 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, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Downtown. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nethervalean economy, worth 202 trillion stags a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 116,454 stags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nethervalean novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about Jason the First, Jason the First's used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition, Jason the First lives life on the open road - complete with groupies, and fat-shaming is now public policy. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nethervale's national animal is the stag, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is none.

Nethervale is ranked 83,483^rd in the world and 917^th in the South Pacific for Most Advanced Law Enforcement, scoring 3,366.62 on the Orwell Orderliness Index.