The Republic of Gerniam is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Mirana Lilum with an iron fist, and notable for its parental licensing program, frequent executions, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 1.842 billion Gerniamians 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shoram. The average income tax rate is 96.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Gerniamian economy, worth 325 trillion Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Tourism, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 176,864 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, foreign leaders are advising that Mirana Lilum's letters must have gotten lost in the mail, and it is illegal to carry an umbrella when the official weather forecast predicts a sunny day. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gerniam's national animal is the Horse, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Former Night Saints.

Gerniam is ranked 2,004^th in the world and 2^nd in Thaecia for Most Patriotic, with 98.48 flags saluted per person per day.