The Empire of Serra-Bandy is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Cassius Coolidge with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 6.384 billion Serra-Bandyians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Administration, Education, and Healthcare are also considered important, while Social Policy receives no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Military District of Serra. The average income tax rate is 92.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Serra-Bandyian economy, worth a remarkable 1,192 trillion Solaris 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Cheese Exports. 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 186,728 Solaris, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

No personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police, no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed, phone taps are frequently carried out by the police, and frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Serra-Bandy's national animal is the Chinchilla, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Serra-Bandy is ranked 45,199^th in the world and 52^nd in Fifth Empire for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,261.04 on the Gilded Widget Scale.