The Holy Gold Cherist Sisterhood of Cherusalem is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Mother Cherperior Knell with a fair hand, and renowned for its state-planned economy, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful, devout population of 1.43 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, socially-minded, 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 91.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Cherusalemite economy, worth 161 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 112,601 Gold Petals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents, public parks are littered with cigarette butts, one of the most popular models in Cherusalem has a scarred face and one working eye, and self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets. 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 327,291^st in the world and 17^th in The Cherlands for Rudest Citizens, with 6.19 insults per minute.