The Community of Nethervale is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jason the First with a fair hand, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, keen interest in outer space, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.705 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 88.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nethervalean economy, worth 198 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 116,414 stags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants, it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and psychiatrists bizarrely accompany Jason the First to meetings with foreign heads of state. 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 3,219^th in the world and 96^th in the South Pacific for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 96.77 on the Kitten Softness Rating.