The Armed Technocracy of The Gelseen Hegemony is a gargantuan, socially progressive nation, ruled by Chancellor Speers with an even hand, and remarkable for its ubiquitous missile silos, free-roaming dinosaurs, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 15.335 billion Gelseens have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The relatively small, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Industry. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Rovenoir. The average income tax rate is 98.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Gelseen Hegemonyian economy, worth an astonishing 10,927 trillion Gold Dinars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is a breathtaking 712,617 Gold Dinars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Cigarettes are dead-cheap, Catherine Gratwick's campaign support is considered seminal, citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles, and Chancellor Speers is spearheading a new fashion trend of wearing swimming goggles and medieval armour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. The Gelseen Hegemony's national animal is the Red Falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Worship through Creation.

The Gelseen Hegemony is ranked 583^rd in the world and 22^nd in Lazarus for Most Cultured, scoring 478 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.