The Republic of NederlandseRepubliek is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its avowedly heterosexual populace, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, devout population of 322 million NederlandseRepubliekians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Defense. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 13.7%.

The strong NederlandseRepubliekian economy, worth 21.6 trillion Poffertjeses a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,191 Poffertjeses, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 227,456 per year while the poor average 14,666, a ratio of 15.5 to 1.

Countless government officials are accused of espionage, at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to Leader's wardrobe, adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them, and unemployed political consultants and advertisers spend every election night weeping for the good old days. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. NederlandseRepubliek's national animal is the Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

NederlandseRepubliek is ranked 78,107^th in the world and 2,143^rd in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 68 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.