The Commonwealth of Derogatopia is a tiny, safe nation, notable for its ban on automobiles, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 14 million equals enjoy extensive civil rights and enjoy a level of social equality free from the usual accompanying government corruption.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 56.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The struggling Derogatopian economy, worth 260 billion common goods a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Tourism, Basket Weaving, Book Publishing, and Retail. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 18,602 common goods, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Derogatopian watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact, the government spends billions to retrieve millions worth of asteroid gold, prosecutors are tucked into bed by the household police officer, and some magnifier-wielding equals say Leader seems a little lacking in something. Crime is totally unknown. Derogatopia's national animal is the red wasp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Derogatopia is ranked 271,151^st in the world and 17^th in UCAZ The CCCCCCCCCCC Autonomous Zone for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -5.37 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.