The Empire of Cry Nerow is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its irreverence towards religion, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, democratic population of 310 million Cry Nerowians enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

The large, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Nerowtopia. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The Cry Nerowian economy, worth 17.1 trillion Dollars 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 Trout Farming industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Automobile Manufacturing, and Arms Manufacturing. Average income is 55,062 Dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.2 times as much as the poorest.

The military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms, those who cut young children are told to cut it out, literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts, and forgetting to pay your annual passport bill is a leading cause of deportations. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Cry Nerow's national animal is the Buffalo, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Cry Nerow is ranked 145,571^st in the world and 3,204^th in The North Pacific for Highest Average Incomes, with 55,062.32 Standard Monetary Units.