The Most Glorious Dictatorship of Cidonia is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by Viktor Nazar with an iron fist, and remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, national health service, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless population of 44.313 billion Cidonians are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Cid City. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Cidonian economy, worth a remarkable 7,263 trillion Cids a year, is quite specialized and led by the Uranium Mining industry, with major contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. Black market activity is extensive. Average income is an impressive 163,903 Cids, with the richest citizens earning 6.5 times as much as the poorest.

Government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art, and friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Cidonia's national animal is the crab-eating macaque, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Atheism.

Cidonia is ranked 4,638^th in the world and 45^th in Europe for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 124,894.36 Standard Monetary Units.