The United Socialist States of Dembuma is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 768 million Dembumen are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Fuleba. The average income tax rate is 69.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Dembuman economy, worth 18.5 trillion fuleras a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Door-to-door Insurance Sales industry, with major contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Information Technology, and Cheese Exports. Average income is 24,071 fuleras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial, Dembuma has designated Fuleba as its capital city, unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims, and tree farms across the nation are overrun by clipboard-wielding biologists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Dembuma's national animal is the sparrow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Dembuma is ranked 301,569^th in the world and 541^st in Starlight for Highest Average Incomes, with 24,071.97 Standard Monetary Units.