The Tlatcani Covenant of Acerbez is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Tezca Kormada with an iron fist, and remarkable for its enslaved workforce, keen interest in outer space, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 14.161 billion Acerbi are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, 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 Tenayuca. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 64.9%.

The all-consuming Acerbian economy, worth a remarkable 1,934 trillion Bones a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Basket Weaving, and Information Technology. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 136,607 Bones, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 562,979 per year while the poor average 21,823, a ratio of 25.8 to 1.

The beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts, trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews, little girls are in tears as Tezca Kormada confiscates their pink princess ballgowns, and the government offers gay men mildly offensive tips on how to pass as straight. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Acerbez's national animal is the Antlered Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Acerbez is ranked 137,970^th in the world and 4^th in Aeterna Publicae for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 705.12 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.