The Dominion of Cerran is a massive, orderly nation, remarkable for its enslaved workforce, suspicion of poets, and complete absence of social welfare. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 1.16 billion Cerranians 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 Administration, Defense, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cer. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 31.9%.

The Cerranian economy, worth 66.2 trillion Notaries 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, fairly diversified black market in Pizza Delivery, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Arms Manufacturing, and Uranium Mining. 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 57,106 Notaries, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 170,771 per year while the poor average 14,936, a ratio of 11.4 to 1.

Motorbike jousters live young and die fast, pregnant women make easy targets, the caged-bird trade is singing, and the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a capable police force. Cerran's national animal is the Scylla, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cerran is ranked 214,295^th in the world and 748^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 28.04 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.