The Concordant Stratum of The Cypher Nine is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Council Chairman Cypher One with an even hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, rampant corporate plagiarism, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, humorless population of 19.585 billion Cypherians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large, socially-minded government is primarily concerned with Education, although Environment, Healthcare, and Industry are also considered important, while Spirituality and Defense receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cypher One - Administrative Block. The average income tax rate is 99.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Cypher Ninean economy, worth a remarkable 5,527 trillion Fulcrums a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an amazing 282,249 Fulcrums, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony, dozens of additional foreign policy specialists have been sent to the country's WA Mission, anti-government web sites are springing up, and the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air. Crime is totally unknown. The Cypher Nine's national animal is the Voltaic Shark, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

The Cypher Nine is ranked 305,029^th in the world and 263^rd in Forest for Most Advanced Defense Forces, scoring -19.75 on the Total War Preparedness Rating.