The Federal Republic of Serpenii is a huge, genial nation, remarkable for its public floggings, state-planned economy, and compulsory military service. The democratic population of 399 million Serpeneans 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 medium-sized government prioritizes Defense, although Education, Law & Order, and Welfare are also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Euclida. The average income tax rate is 29.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Serpeniian economy, worth 15.9 trillion Lyras 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 slick, highly efficient, fairly diversified black market in Retail, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. 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 39,762 Lyras, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration, the nation's soldiers are considered the best-dressed in Aspen, Serpenii has designated Euclida as its capital city, and every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Serpenii's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Serpenii is ranked 225,230^th in the world and 107^th in Aspen for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 27,953.35 Standard Monetary Units.