The Collaborating Communities of Deros is a mammoth, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its complete lack of prisons, devotion to social welfare, and exploding hoverboards. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.171 billion Derosites are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government prioritizes Education, although Administration, Social Policy, and Environment are also considered important, while Defense and Law & Order aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Squatcity. The average income tax rate is 88.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Derosian economy, worth 789 trillion bummed ciggies 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 Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Tourism. Average income is 96,626 bummed ciggies, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Witches' brews set off Geiger counters, it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up, the recycled air in planes is nauseating, and a vast monorail network carries people all over the country. Crime is totally unknown. Deros's national animal is the punk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Deros is ranked 2,811^th in the world and 2^nd in Pax Omni for Most Compassionate Citizens, scoring 101.45 on the Kitten Softness Rating.