The Free Land of Cephandrius is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its ban on automobiles, smutty television, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, hard-working, democratic population of 287 million Cephandriusians hold their civil and political rights very dear, although the wealthy and those in business tend to be viewed with suspicion.

The relatively small, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Welfare, and Environment. The average income tax rate is 20.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The strong Cephandriusian economy, worth 18.4 trillion Breaths a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Retail, Gambling, and Uranium Mining. Average income is 64,175 Breaths, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking, orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents, and royalist is the most offensive slur in the Cephandriusian language. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Cephandrius's national animal is the Kandra, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cephandrius is ranked 313,561^st in the world and 1^st in Shards of the Cosmere for Most Patriotic, with 0.41 flags saluted per person per day.