The Republic of KeronikaIII is a gargantuan, orderly nation, remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, sprawling nuclear power plants, and ritual sacrifices. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 11.754 billion KeronikaIIIians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 30.6%.

The frighteningly efficient KeronikaIIIian economy, worth a remarkable 2,314 trillion pounds a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Uranium Mining. Black market activity is extensive. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 196,916 pounds, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 715,963 per year while the poor average 38,534, a ratio of 18.6 to 1.

Nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more, copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper, the KeronikaIIIian Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances, and barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the KeronikaIII City Natural History Museum. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. KeronikaIII's national animal is the wolf, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

KeronikaIII is ranked 15,998^th in the world and 14^th in New Bilderberg Group for Lowest Crime Rates, with 93.21 law-abiding acts per hour.