The Advanced States of Centa is a massive, socially progressive nation, ruled by Supreme Kaiser Fierceside with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, vat-grown people, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 2.527 billion Centanians are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The medium-sized, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Harveburn. The average income tax rate is 75.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Centan economy, worth 485 trillion Cybercoins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 192,143 Cybercoins, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Centan Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock, violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner, the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The Harveburn Times is sold out, and Amnesty Interregional has condemned Centa for ignoring crimes against humanity. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Centa's national animal is the Wyvern, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Seven Pillars of Infinity.

Centa is ranked 15,013^th in the world and 797^th in the South Pacific for Most Income Equality, scoring 85.14 on the Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale.