The Empire of Cherepakha is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Tôjô Yoshihiro with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, ubiquitous missile silos, and astonishingly minimal parenting. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 15.695 billion Cherepakhans 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 large, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, with Law & Order, Spirituality, and Industry also on the agenda, while Welfare is ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of The Citadel. The average income tax rate is 66.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Cherepakhan economy, worth a remarkable 1,601 trillion Eggs 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 large, well-organized, quite specialized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Gambling, Woodchip Exports, 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 an impressive 102,055 Eggs, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.4 times as much as the poorest.

Flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists, nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience, it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance, and glossy adverts featuring baby's first puff adorn mothers' magazines. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cherepakha's national animal is the turtle, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways, and its national religion is Pakhlim.

Cherepakha is ranked 37,700^th in the world and 1,938^th in Balder for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 832.14 on the Clooney Contribution Index.