The State of Gower is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its state-planned economy, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The cynical population of 32.069 billion Gowerians 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 enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Education, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Capital Heights. The average income tax rate is 73.9%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The large but stagnant Gowerian economy, worth 403 trillion betales 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 slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Trout Farming, Arms Manufacturing, and Furniture Restoration. 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 12,574 betales, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Elections have been outlawed, vegetarianism is compulsory, and the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gower's national animal is the deer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gower is ranked 125,116^th in the world and 1^st in Faroe Islands for Most Eco-Friendly Governments, scoring 608.83 on the Dolphin Recycling Awareness Index.