The Progressive Technocracy of Centrical Union is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Director Raphael Sylvester with an even hand, and renowned for its teetotalling pirates, sprawling nuclear power plants, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 8.744 billion Centrical Unionists have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of New Geneva. The average income tax rate is 91.2%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Centrist economy, worth a remarkable 1,203 trillion Centrical Union Credits a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 137,617 Centrical Union Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, New Geneva's back alleys are rife with sausage eating, it's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans, and national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Centrical Union's national animal is the Bee, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Ascended Centrism.

Centrical Union is ranked 223,116^th in the world and 3,849^th in The East Pacific for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring -4.38 on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.