The Fetchland of Polluted Delta is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mark Rosewater with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 10.357 billion Polluted Deltans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fetchland. The average income tax rate is 72.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Polluted Deltan economy, worth a remarkable 1,145 trillion lands 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 large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Information Technology, and Furniture Restoration. 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 an impressive 110,615 lands, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples, prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population, newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words', and parole hearings come with a complimentary ten-year extension. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Polluted Delta's national animal is the fetch, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is fetching.

Polluted Delta is ranked 66,095^th in the world and 24^th in House Boucher for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 144.86 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.