The Free Republic of Derkma is a massive, safe nation, ruled by President Hansley with an even hand, and renowned for its avowedly heterosexual populace, soft-spoken computers, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless population of 1.029 billion Derkmen are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gustavei. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 39.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Derkman economy, worth 138 trillion Derkman Dollars 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 slick, highly efficient, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 134,913 Derkman Dollars, with the richest citizens earning 7.2 times as much as the poorest.

Billions of Derkman Dollars are being blown on orbital weapons development, nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers, mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found, and the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Derkma's national animal is the Eagle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution, and its national religion is The Derkman Orthodox Christian.

Derkma is ranked 8,683^rd in the world and 1^st in Croaso for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 6,201.58 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.