The Peoples Democratic Republic of Cierrida is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Premier Mateo Santana with an iron fist, and remarkable for its public floggings, parental licensing program, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 10.126 billion Cierridans 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 Law & Order, Defense, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Santa Río. The average income tax rate is 94.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Cierridan economy, worth a remarkable 1,420 trillion Notas 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 significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Uranium Mining. Average income is an impressive 140,316 Notas, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Third world countries are rich in "I Love Santa Río" t-shirts, former slave-owners hope there are no hard feelings when they apply for jobs from their erstwhile charges, citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive, and roosters that herald the rising sun are immediately sent to the slaughterhouse. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cierrida's national animal is the Cierridan Toucan, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Secular.

Cierrida is ranked 231,707^th in the world and 123^rd in Commonwealth of Sovereign States for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -4.58 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.