The Reign of Terror of Mayor Gerbert is a colossal, safe nation, ruled by Mayor Gerbert with an iron fist, and remarkable for its compulsory military service, avowedly heterosexual populace, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 2.521 billion Mayor Gerbertians 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, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gerberts G-TV. The average income tax rate is 74.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Mayor Gerbertian economy, worth 18.1 trillion Cats 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 Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Pizza Delivery, and Automobile Manufacturing. Average income is 7,161 Cats, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs, the police double as repo men, journalists giggle uncontrollably while reporting the nation's drug bonfires, and citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Mayor Gerbert. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mayor Gerbert's national animal is the Stuffed Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Christianity.

Mayor Gerbert is ranked 268,980^th in the world and 322^nd in Sertia for Least Corrupt Governments, with 80.63 percentage of bribes refused.