The Confederated Communes of Guthrie is a massive, genial nation, ruled by The Guthrian General Assembly with a fair hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, and smutty television. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.512 billion Guthrians 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 large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Arlo City. The average income tax rate is 92.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Guthriean economy, worth 227 trillion Isnotas 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 led by the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is an impressive 150,585 Isnotas, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Inter-species marriages are ignored by the government, hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts, foreign leaders are advising that The Guthrian General Assembly's letters must have gotten lost in the mail, and the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles. Crime is totally unknown. Guthrie's national animal is the Woody Guthrie, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Guthrie is ranked 288,737^th in the world and 172^nd in Anarchy for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.4 kickbacks per hour.