The Lavender Gardens of Giovanniland is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by King Giovanni VI with a fair hand, and renowned for its complete lack of prisons, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, cheerful population of 15.391 billion Giovannilandians are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Industry, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Giovannia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Giovannilandian economy, worth an astonishing 10,450 trillion Abrios a year, is broadly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Retail. Average income is a breathtaking 678,979 Abrios, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 6,083,378 per year while the poor average 9,760, a ratio of 623 to 1.

Customers who are not the epitome of politeness always find themselves at the back of the queue, artificial intelligences seeking exciting work are overcome with ennui, artists can sign away their music on luxury paper with freshly-squeezed squid ink, and AI citizens think only in binary. Crime, especially youth-related, is so common that it is unusual to encounter someone following the law, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Giovanniland's national animal is the Macaw, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Giovanniland is ranked 144^th in the world and 3^rd in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 40,189.34 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.