The Republic of Lake Delta is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its public floggings, infamous sell-swords, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, cynical population of 722 million Deltanians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cliff Plateau. The average income tax rate is 69.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Deltanian economy, worth 71.3 trillion Deltanian Euros a year, is broadly diversified and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 98,764 Deltanian Euros, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Lake Delta has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world, people often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time, eminent domain has been abolished, and raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Lake Delta's national animal is the Capybara, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Lake Delta is ranked 47,868^th in the world and 391^st in 10000 Islands for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 4,514.81 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.