The United Socialist States of Demblention is a very large, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 172 million Demblentionians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Demblentionian economy, worth 5.60 trillion marks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Woodchip Exports, and Pizza Delivery. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 32,550 marks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer, the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor, 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past, and colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Demblention's national animal is the Trout, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Demblention is ranked 130,654^th in the world and 703^rd in The Communist Bloc for Most Patriotic, with 12.23 flags saluted per person per day.