The Dictatorship of Gercrad is a small, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 45 million Gercradians 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 enormous, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 70.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but sluggish Gercradian economy, worth 1.31 trillion Crads 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 dominated by the Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Uranium Mining. Average income is 29,130 Crads, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, Leader's recent "I have a dream that we will fight them by raking muck on the beaches" speech seems a little derivative to many, and military spending recently hit a new high. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gercrad's national animal is the Human, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gercrad is ranked 118,864^th in the world and 145^th in Communitas for Most Extensive Public Healthcare, scoring 1,484.83 on the Theresa-Nightingale Rating.