The Community of Nethervale is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Jason the First with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 1.764 billion Nethervaleans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Downtown. The average income tax rate is 89.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Nethervalean economy, worth 210 trillion stags a year, is highly specialized and dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 119,191 stags, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms, foreign ambassadors closely guard their culinary secrets, the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks, and the fire protection service is wholly government-funded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nethervale's national animal is the stag, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is none.

Nethervale is ranked 319,822^nd in the world and 3,951^st in the South Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -8.58 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.