The Federation of Centas is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Allan C Harrington with an iron fist, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, unlimited-speed roads, and infamous sell-swords. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 2.332 billion Centasians 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 relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Centasi. The average income tax rate is 51.2%.

The frighteningly efficient Centasian economy, worth 495 trillion Centasian Cents a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, and Retail. Black market activity is rampant. Average income is an amazing 212,424 Centasian Cents, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.3 times as much as the poorest.

Ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality, forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies, earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss, and hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock". Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Centas's national animal is the Crow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Centas is ranked 289,580^th in the world and 992^nd in The Frontier Sea for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring -4.47 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.