The Holy Empire of Gungnir is a mammoth, socially progressive nation, remarkable for its public floggings, compulsory military service, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 8.967 billion Gungnirars are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The tiny, pro-business, well-organized government is dominated by the Department of Defense, although Law & Order is also considered important, while Spirituality and International Aid receive no funds. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 6.8%.

The strong Gungnirian economy, worth 479 trillion Golds a year, is driven almost entirely by the private sector, which is broadly diversified and led by the Pizza Delivery industry, with major contributions from Automobile Manufacturing, Arms Manufacturing, and Book Publishing. Average income is 53,427 Golds, but there is an enormous disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 330,954 per year while the poor average 3,721, a ratio of 88.9 to 1.

Organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region, the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry, the country is preparing for war, and college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys. Crime is a major problem, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Gungnir's national animal is the Raven, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to toxic air pollution.

Gungnir is ranked 73,604^th in the world and 1^st in Odin for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring 3,095.76 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.