The Advanced States of Centa is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Supreme Kaiser Fierceside with an iron fist, and remarkable for its pith helmet sales, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.756 billion Centanians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Harveburn. The average income tax rate is 75.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Centan economy, worth 530 trillion Cybercoins 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. 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 192,464 Cybercoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Centan Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Harveburn Times is sold out, and Amnesty Interregional has condemned Centa for ignoring crimes against humanity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Centa's national animal is the Wyvern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Seven Pillars of Infinity.

Centa is ranked 20,369^th in the world and 896^th in the South Pacific for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 4,933.57 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.