The People's Socialist Republic of Cerinda is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Andrei Kamriov with an iron fist, and renowned for its soft-spoken computers, public floggings, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 11.514 billion Cerindans are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kovograd. The average income tax rate is 94.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Cerindan economy, worth a remarkable 2,704 trillion Rubles 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 amazing 234,871 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Many former slaves are finding out there is such a thing as a free lunch, religious citizens are closely monitored for signs of self-harm, being Andrei Kamriov has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs, and former slaves find themselves being herded onto ships once more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cerinda's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Atheism.

Cerinda is ranked 131,627^th in the world and 5,500^th in Osiris for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.