The Metrostocracy of Sernet is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Chief Sernesius with an even hand, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, avowedly heterosexual populace, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 2.541 billion Sernetians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Sernetesen. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 37.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Sernetian economy, worth 323 trillion Metrons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 127,130 Metrons, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 395,122 per year while the poor average 31,466, a ratio of 12.6 to 1.

90% of active duty SAF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones, unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne, grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving, and understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Sernet's national animal is the Strognus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Anti-Islamist Sunni Islam.

Sernet is ranked 15,244^th in the world and 5^th in Metropolitan Union for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring 6,531.87 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.