The United Socialist Republics of Gernaet is a colossal, genial nation, ruled by Premier Mikala Kapena with a fair hand, and notable for its rampant corporate plagiarism, smutty television, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 8.588 billion Gernaetese are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, liberal, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Hearthtown. The average income tax rate is 89.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gernaetish economy, worth a remarkable 1,056 trillion Silvers 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Book Publishing, and Basket Weaving. 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 an impressive 123,058 Silvers, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned cowball fields, hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock", politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech, and Premier Mikala Kapena panders to nontraditional families. Crime is totally unknown. Gernaet's national animal is the cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is none.

Gernaet is ranked 100,098^th in the world and 9^th in Enadia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 65.91 law-abiding acts per hour.