The Democratic Republic of Serlaster is a massive, genial nation, renowned for its absence of drug laws, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.016 billion Serlasterians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The large, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 74.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Serlasterian economy, worth 81.7 trillion florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Book Publishing. Average income is 80,392 florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly, there's never enough space in space, t-shirts displaying a photo of Leader performing the Full-Monty are selling out, and the nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Serlaster's national animal is the fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Serlaster is ranked 299,485^th in the world and 57^th in Free Democracies International for Largest Black Market, with 20.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.