The Kingdom of Gudetamia is a huge, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its punitive income tax rates, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 462 million Gudetamians 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 enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Mister Happy's Funland. The average income tax rate is 72.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Gudetamian economy, worth 22.8 trillion Geopays 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 mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Trout Farming. Average income is 49,435 Geopays, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain, the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on Gudetamia, strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices, and Mr Happy's Funland has just been named Gudetamia's new capital. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gudetamia's national animal is the Chinstrap Penguin, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Gudetamia is ranked 267,467^th in the world and 185^th in Thaecia for Most Patriotic, with 0.87 flags saluted per person per day.