The Federal Republic of Dredia is a very large, genial nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 409 million Dredians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Caldemar. The average income tax rate is 67.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Dredian economy, worth 43.6 trillion Drens a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 106,690 Drens, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

What's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans, burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine, scientists on maritime expeditions return with a healthy glow, and sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dredia's national animal is the Panther, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Dredia is ranked 188,479^th in the world and 63^rd in Union of Allied States for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 34,674.55 Standard Monetary Units.