The People's Socialist Republic of Cerinda is a massive, orderly nation, ruled by Andrei Kamriov with an iron fist, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.407 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, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kovograd. The average income tax rate is 78.7%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Cerindan economy, worth 146 trillion Rubles a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 104,417 Rubles, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations, one complaint of Cerinda's new periodic table is it's easy to confuse fearlessleaderium with gloriousleaderium, the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state, and scientists are researching the best way to kill off humanity to prevent catastrophic war. 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 61,775^th in the world and 3,271^st in The North Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 67 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.