The Giovanniland TopLevel Domain of GO is a gargantuan, cultured nation, notable for its public floggings, national health service, and vat-grown people. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 28.226 billion GOians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The relatively small, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Education. The average income tax rate is 9.2%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient GOian economy, worth a remarkable 5,745 trillion Gios 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 a large, well-organized, broadly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Book Publishing, and Soda Sales. 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 203,545 Gios, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.6 times as much as the poorest.

Signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading GOian justice, emergency vehicles have built-in nudge bars to give uncooperative drivers a "gentle" push, wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them, and the government spares every expense for national defence. Crime, especially youth-related, is a problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. GO's national animal is the Gio, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

GO is ranked 8,901^st in the world and 4^th in Spear Danes for Largest Populations, with 28.2 billion capita.