The National Monarchist State of Cermiersia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its lack of airports, strictly enforced bedtime, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 542 million Cermiersians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The enormous, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mariline. The average income tax rate is 91.2%.

The strong Cermiersian economy, worth 49.6 trillion Falktikes a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, highly specialized black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Trout Farming. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 91,477 Falktikes, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.2 times as much as the poorest.

The song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Cermiersia' is a smash hit, proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers, soldiers are equipped with multi-million Falktike battlesuits, and the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cermiersia's national animal is the Cenus, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cermiersia is ranked 19,126^th in the world and 466^th in the Pacific for Most Advanced Public Education, scoring 7,498.4 on the Edu-tellignce® Test Score.