The City-State of Sernet is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Chief SernetDJ with an even hand, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, frequent executions, and strictly enforced bedtime. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 1.312 billion Sernetians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Spasem. The average income tax rate is 30.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Sernetian economy, worth 142 trillion Metrons a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Woodchip Exports, and Automobile Manufacturing. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an impressive 108,859 Metrons, with the richest citizens earning 5.3 times as much as the poorest.

Chief SernetDJ signs the laws but abides by none of them, the only place where one can see the Sernetian cherry tree is in a museum, it is said that a Sernetian woman's work is never done, and traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways. Crime, especially youth-related, is almost non-existent. Sernet's national animal is the Strognus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Islam.

Sernet is ranked 197,056^th in the world and 1^st in Metropolitan Union for Largest Populations, with 1.31 billion capita.