The Socialist Union of Kerla is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Jacob Randall with a fair hand, and remarkable for its museums and concert halls, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 37.111 billion Kerlans are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Abbott. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Kerlan economy, worth a remarkable 8,570 trillion Thennats a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing and Tourism. Average income is an amazing 230,943 Thennats, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The Kerla Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise, one does not simply walk into the tundra, signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, and holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects. Crime is totally unknown. Kerla's national animal is the Garden Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Church of Kerla.

Kerla is ranked 748^th in the world and 2^nd in Anticapitalist Alliance for Highest Food Quality, scoring 397.17 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.