The People's Republic of Morgasm is a very large, cultured nation, remarkable for its museums and concert halls, daily referendums, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 250 million Gasmians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 67.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but underdeveloped Morgasmic economy, worth 10.5 trillion Jisms a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Trout Farming, and Tourism. Average income is 42,084 Jisms, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose, criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison, terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports, and murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Morgasm's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Morgasm is ranked 207,212^th in the world and 1,031^st in the Plains of Perdition for Largest Insurance Industry, scoring -2.28 on the Risk Expulsion Effectiveness Rating.