The Pristine Protectorate of Seranis is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by a staunch environmentalist with an even hand, and remarkable for its national health service, keen interest in outer space, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cheerful population of 35.476 billion Seranisians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Seranis Meadows. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Seranisian economy, worth an astonishing 13,041 trillion serans a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an amazing 367,607 serans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste, the world still seems flat to some people in space, artists are pillars of society, and it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into Seranis. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Seranis's national animal is the elk, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is the Fellowship of Leaves.

Seranis is ranked 76^th in the world and 1^st in 10000 Islands for Most Developed, scoring 100.86 on the Human Development Index.