The Community of Cearcesia is a huge, socially progressive nation, notable for its avant-garde cinema, prohibition of alcohol, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 988 million Cearcesians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — prioritizes Education, although Welfare, Healthcare, and Environment are also considered important, while Defense and Spirituality receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of A' Neadachadh. The average income tax rate is 84.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Cearcesian economy, worth 53.1 trillion Biscuits a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming. Average income is 53,774 Biscuits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees, lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you', trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy, and bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cearcesia's national animal is the Scotch Grey Chicken, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cearcesia is ranked 66,357^th in the world and 113^th in Concord for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 2,925.49 on the Gilded Widget Scale.