The Holy Gold Cherist Sisterhood of Cherusalem is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Mother Cherperior Knell with a fair hand, and renowned for its keen interest in outer space, state-planned economy, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 1.318 billion Cherusalemite Nuns are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Education, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of City of Pilgrims. The average income tax rate is 91.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cherusalemite economy, worth 145 trillion Gold Petals 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 dominated by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Cheese Exports. Average income is an impressive 110,187 Gold Petals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Turning the other cheek is accompanied by a polite letter of complaint, major internet servers have acquired citizenship, absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations, and it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cherusalem's national animal is the Zirzuran Passerine, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is The Noble Teaching of Cher.

Cherusalem is ranked 97,906^th in the world and 6^th in The Cherlands for Largest Pizza Delivery Sector, scoring 2,062.07 on the Pepperoni Propulsion Productivity Index.