The United Socialist Republics of Gernaet is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Premier Andrei Kowenski with a fair hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, keen interest in outer space, and absence of drug laws. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 8.718 billion Gernaetese hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The large, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hearthtown. The average income tax rate is 68.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gernaetish economy, worth 952 trillion Silvers 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 109,288 Silvers, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Auditors are gutting every governmental department, the government's economic policy is "sort it yourself", interest in globalism never flags, and the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Hearthtown Times is sold out. Crime, especially youth-related, is a serious problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gernaet's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Gernaet is ranked 56,377^th in the world and 8^th in Enadia for Largest Populations, with 8.72 billion capita.