The Federation of Cyberstrom is a massive, cultured nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and pith helmet sales. The compassionate population of 4.7 billion Cyberstromians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 85.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming Cyberstromian economy, worth 475 trillion Cybercoins a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 101,128 Cybercoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail, Leader's media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week, the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon, and gangs of political bullies tell minority voices to "shut up because we say so". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cyberstrom's national animal is the wolf, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Cyberstrom is ranked 19,132^nd in the world and 431^st in The East Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 287.18 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.