The Most Serene Republic of Galano is a huge, genial nation, renowned for its compulsory military service, irreverence towards religion, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical population of 807 million Galanoans are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 55.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Galanoan economy, worth 26.7 trillion Dollors a year, is quite specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Cheese Exports, Arms Manufacturing, and Pizza Delivery. Black market activity is notable. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 33,136 Dollors, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas", there's a bright dawn ahead for Galano, private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government, and older citizens lament over the loss of law and order. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Galano's national animal is the Sea Cucumber, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Galano is ranked 69,744^th in the world and 1,213^th in the South Pacific for Most Patriotic, with 20.18 flags saluted per person per day.