The State of Cheri Q is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Governor with an iron fist, and notable for its state-planned economy, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 37.54 billion Cheri Qians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized morass — juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Cheri Qian economy, worth 650 trillion betales 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology, Uranium Mining, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 17,315 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, Cheri Q has designated Capital Heights as its capital city, and The Governor has just been declared ruler of Cheri Q in an international press conference. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cheri Q's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cheri Q is ranked 233,766^th in the world and 399^th in State for Largest Cheese Export Sector, scoring zero on the Mozzarella Productivity Index.