The Non-Democratic Republic of Verderiesdre is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Maria with an iron fist, and renowned for its infamous sell-swords, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 10.395 billion Verderians are proud of their wide-ranging civil freedoms, and those who aren't tend to be dragged off the streets by men in dark suits and hustled into cars with tinted windows.

The medium-sized, corrupt, liberal, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berevesk. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Verderian economy, worth a remarkable 2,453 trillion Sherlings a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 236,038 Sherlings, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods", conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings, snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center, and the government subsidises medicines of mass destruction. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Verderiesdre's national animal is the Dolphin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Nothing.

Verderiesdre is ranked 287,108^th in the world and 6,155^th in The North Pacific for Most Primitive, scoring -510.52 on the Scary Big Number Scale.