The Nature Reserve of Kereniya is a titanic, genial nation, ruled by Alisa Koshkina with a fair hand, and renowned for its anti-smoking policies, national health service, and multi-spousal wedding ceremonies. The compassionate, democratic population of 12.003 billion Kerenians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kotov. The average income tax rate is 77.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Kerenian economy, worth 805 trillion Medyaks a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing, Cheese Exports, and Basket Weaving. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 67,115 Medyaks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations, royalist is the most offensive slur in the Kerenian language, candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals, and voting is voluntary. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kereniya's national animal is the European Wildcat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Kereniya is ranked 7,273^rd in the world and 2^nd in The Forest for Nicest Citizens, with 37.64 average smiles per day.