The Oppressive Personal Tyrandom of Cermiersia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Queen Moramia Paleni with an iron fist, and remarkable for its triple-decker prams, anti-smoking policies, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 2.649 billion 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 prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Administration also on the agenda. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mariline. The average income tax rate is 97.5%.

The all-consuming Cermier economy, worth 465 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 Arms Manufacturing and Information Technology. 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 175,693 Falktikes, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up, at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold, old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones, and Harry Potter books are banned. 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, and its national religion is Skirjisonism.

Cermiersia is ranked 7,395^th in the world and 193^rd in the Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 472.02 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.