The Sovereign Federal State of Kerteria is a huge, orderly nation, ruled by Frederick Otto Reinhardt with an iron fist, and remarkable for its barren, inhospitable landscape, public floggings, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 802 million Kerterians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, pro-business, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Education also on the agenda, while Environment and Spirituality aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kertervile. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Kerterian economy, worth 104 trillion ophins a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Retail, Uranium Mining, and Information Technology. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 129,923 ophins, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 686,564 per year while the poor average 13,057, a ratio of 52.6 to 1.

Families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs, the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of Kerterian Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate", those who investigate UFOs tend to wake up delirious on abandoned roads, and art criticism in Kerteria is scathingly destructive. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kerteria's national animal is the grizzly bear, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Kerteria is ranked 45,211^th in the world and 5^th in Chat Club for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 195.86 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.