The Holy Reich of Gerista is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Holy emperor Lenn tripp with an iron fist, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, public floggings, and otherworldly petting zoo. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 5.674 billion Geristans 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, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of burnich. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Geristan economy, worth a remarkable 1,080 trillion reich marks 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, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Furniture Restoration, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 190,381 reich marks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 608,431 per year while the poor average 45,253, a ratio of 13.4 to 1.

Patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water, the police use sound cannons and mortars to deal with loud parties, paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark, and card collectors duel to the death. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gerista's national animal is the Basking shark, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Anglican.

Gerista is ranked 140,987^th in the world and 6^th in Altmora for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring 1,257.61 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.