The Tlatcani Covenant of Acerbez is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by Tezca Kormada with an iron fist, and remarkable for its complete lack of prisons, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 11.632 billion Acerbi 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 medium-sized, corrupt, 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 Tenayuca. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.9%.

The all-consuming Acerbian economy, worth a remarkable 1,574 trillion Bones a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 135,384 Bones, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 583,082 per year while the poor average 20,056, a ratio of 29.1 to 1.

International trade can be a pain to deal with, exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies", wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct, and Antlered Foxes have more rights than the average citizen. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Acerbez's national animal is the Antlered Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Acerbez is ranked 32,630^th in the world and 4^th in Aeterna Publicae for Highest Food Quality, scoring 57.1 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.