The Most Serene Republic of Cherryton and Surrounding Areas is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Nakashima Raion with a fair hand, and remarkable for its ban on automobiles, parental licensing program, and ritual sacrifices. The compassionate, democratic population of 4.797 billion Cherrytoners 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, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cherryton. The average income tax rate is 48.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Cherryton and Surrounding Areasian economy, worth 337 trillion Cherryton Yen 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, Book Publishing, Tourism, and Basket Weaving. 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 70,322 Cherryton Yen, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

An increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents, the weather in Cherryton is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings', collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise, and artists are pillars of society. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cherryton and Surrounding Areas's national animal is the Griffin, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Agnostic.

Cherryton and Surrounding Areas is ranked 25,026^th in the world and 6^th in Anime for Nicest Citizens, with 20.42 average smiles per day.