The Dominion of Cerran is a huge, orderly nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, enslaved workforce, and state-planned economy. The hard-nosed, cynical, devout population of 738 million 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 32.3%.

The Cerranian economy, worth 40.5 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, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. 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 54,912 Notaries, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 162,344 per year while the poor average 14,596, a ratio of 11.1 to 1.

Radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass, the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners, caps with skulls on them are the height of fashion, and senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour. 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 296,493^rd in the world and 896^th in The Frontier Sea for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -11.17 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.