The Armed Republic of Cetheria is a very large, safe nation, remarkable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, compulsory military service, and anti-smoking policies. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 203 million Cetherians enjoy great social freedoms and frequent elections, where the majority of the populace regularly votes to increase its benefits at the expense of various hapless minorities.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 67.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Cetherian economy, worth 12.2 trillion Shiny Platinum Medals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Basket Weaving. Average income is 59,869 Shiny Platinum Medals, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds, government officials stay up all night in flame wars with their constituents, the green glow is a sign of clean energy, and it takes a village to catch a criminal. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cetheria's national animal is the Rat, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Cetheria is ranked 243,796^th in the world and 203^rd in Refugia for Most Extensive Civil Rights, with 28.13 Martin Luther King, Jr. Units.