The Hive of Delthorensdale is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Ray Sunset with an even hand, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, national health service, and sprawling nuclear power plants. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 18.873 billion Delth enjoy extensive civil freedoms, particularly in social issues, while business tends to be more regulated.

The minute, liberal government, or what there is of one, juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sunset Manor. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Delth economy, worth a remarkable 7,039 trillion indocries a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is fairly diversified and dominated by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is an amazing 372,981 indocries, with the richest citizens earning 5.0 times as much as the poorest.

Welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got, cheese has become the new icon of political dissent, environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests, and there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality. Crime is totally unknown. Delthorensdale's national animal is the clockwork horror, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Facilitate.

Delthorensdale is ranked 287,436^th in the world and 5,330^th in the South Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.47 kickbacks per hour.