The Empire of Cerean is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Leader with an iron fist, and renowned for its strictly enforced bedtime, sprawling nuclear power plants, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 40.614 billion Cereanians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, corrupt, pro-business, well-organized government is effectively ruled by the Department of Law & Order, with Education and Defense also on the agenda, while Welfare and Social Policy receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cerean City. Income tax is unheard of.

The frighteningly efficient Cereanian economy, worth an astonishing 11,352 trillion lopics a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Book Publishing. Average income is an amazing 279,529 lopics, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,302,040 per year while the poor average 35,984, a ratio of 36.2 to 1.

International trade is a sticky issue, the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita, pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits, and jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force. Cerean's national animal is the rabid panda, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is none.

Cerean is ranked 5,668^th in the world and 1^st in The Great Blah for Lowest Crime Rates, with 113.46 law-abiding acts per hour.