The Community of Nethervale is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Jason the First with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, unlimited-speed roads, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.579 billion Nethervaleans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded 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 87.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nethervalean economy, worth 178 trillion stags a year, is highly specialized and led 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 113,324 stags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the Nethervalean Space Agency, surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space', kids these days know how to throw a proper punch, and whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of Nethervalean Embarrassments. 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 9,167^th in the world and 234^th in the South Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 119 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.