The State of Ghedeland is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Taeko Van Pels with an iron fist, and remarkable for its multi-spousal wedding ceremonies, vat-grown people, and ubiquitous missile silos. The hard-nosed, cynical, cheerful population of 11.284 billion Ghedelandais 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kantora. The average income tax rate is 89.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Ghedelandian economy, worth a remarkable 4,096 trillion Samedi Francs 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, quite specialized black market in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. 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 an amazing 363,045 Samedi Francs, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room, they say that Ghedelandais made a dessert and called it peace, farting etiquette is taught in schools, and lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ghedeland's national animal is the Black Faced Seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Voodoo.

Ghedeland is ranked 1,217^th in the world and 2^nd in Commonwealth of Liberty for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 18,932.4 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.