The Sisterworld of Sterope is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, ruled by Legate Jagoda Quliyev with a fair hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape and compulsory military service. The hard-working, democratic, devout population of 6.826 billion Steropeans are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The tiny government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cepheus. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 8.4%.

The very strong Steropean economy, worth 492 trillion denaris a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry, with major contributions from Woodchip Exports, Furniture Restoration, and Gambling. Average income is 72,186 denaris, with the richest citizens earning 7.9 times as much as the poorest.

Legate Jagoda Quliyev has just been declared ruler of Sterope in an international press conference, voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary, increasing numbers of children in Sterope have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers, and photographers have to apply for a license to photograph Legate Jagoda Quliyev. Crime, especially youth-related, is well under control. Sterope's national animal is the turtle, which can occasionally be seen avoiding garbage in the nation's murky oceans, and its national religion is Tellurism.

Sterope is ranked 62,453^rd in the world and 1^st in Nowhere for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 3,218.34 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.