The Republic of Centristan is a titanic, efficient nation, remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and public floggings. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, devout population of 10.154 billion Centristanians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Spirituality, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The powerhouse Centristanian economy, worth 826 trillion dollars a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 81,442 dollars, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 322,158 per year while the poor average 13,928, a ratio of 23.1 to 1.

The Random Number Gods do play dice with the universe (Centristan has found 1 easter egg), people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, and there's a politician called Male Infant Grimes. Crime is moderate. Centristan's national animal is the enlightened lemming, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Centristan is ranked 152,505^th in the world and 1^st in Stanistan for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring 1,457.67 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.