The Commonwealth of Sernamica is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its public floggings, punitive income tax rates, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 1.807 billion Sernamicans are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The enormous, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Law & Order, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sernamica City. The average income tax rate is 68.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Sernamican economy, worth 113 trillion serivs 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 a large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Soda Sales, Pizza Delivery, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Retail. 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 62,953 serivs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

Not even good behaviour will get transgender inmates any special perks, citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint, young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid, and having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom. Crime is relatively low, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Sernamica's national animal is the dog, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Sernamica is ranked 229,120^th in the world and 7,753^rd in the South Pacific for Highest Drug Use, scoring 10 on the Pineapple Fondness Rating.