The Community of Nethervale is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Jason the First with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.187 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 government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Downtown. The average income tax rate is 79.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nethervalean economy, worth 109 trillion stags a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 92,429 stags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Administrative districts are increasingly defined by their taste in housing architecture, the nation is currently revamping its entire education system, cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling, and the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Nethervale's national animal is the stag, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Nethervale is ranked 303,753^rd in the world and 4,076^th in the South Pacific for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.48 kickbacks per hour.