The Former Republic of Cherdoskie is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Herr Desgoff und Gottschalk with an iron fist, and remarkable for its anti-smoking policies, irreverence towards religion, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 29.547 billion Cherdoskieans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Neblesbad. The average income tax rate is 96.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Cherdoskiean economy, worth a remarkable 4,085 trillion Kulbecks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 138,269 Kulbecks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, and tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cherdoskie's national animal is the Pony, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Eastern Orthodox.

Cherdoskie is ranked 288,647^th in the world and 123^rd in Equestria for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -16.43 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.