The Blood Republic of Kerzak is a huge, efficient nation, renowned for its pith helmet sales, absence of drug laws, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 842 million Kerzakians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded government is dominated by the Department of Defense, with Administration, Law & Order, and Industry also on the agenda, while International Aid and Education aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Brawle. The average income tax rate is 41.3%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Kerzakian economy, worth 96.2 trillion Tifs 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 large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Uranium Mining, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 114,264 Tifs, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused, Calvinball training often involves digging escape tunnels, there are no more heroes any more, and Leader has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences. Crime is moderate, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Kerzak's national animal is the Warthog, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Kerzak is ranked 228,122^nd in the world and 1,085^th in Europeia for Lowest Crime Rates, with 56.51 law-abiding acts per hour.