The Dangerously Treed Republic of Viderban is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Kiril Iliev with an even hand, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, daily referendums, and keen interest in outer space. The compassionate population of 3.334 billion Viderbanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mir. The average income tax rate is 80.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Viderbanian economy, worth 341 trillion Daskas a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 102,297 Daskas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak, Viderbanians are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna, sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations, and restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in Viderban. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Viderban's national animal is the Squirrel, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Viderban is ranked 15,196^th in the world and 217^th in the West Pacific for Lowest Crime Rates, with 94.01 law-abiding acts per hour.