The SybilSocialist Megacluster of The City of Guelph is a gargantuan, genial nation, ruled by President Banks with an even hand, and notable for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and vat-grown people. The compassionate, humorless population of 15.397 billion Guelphites are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Guelph. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Guelphian economy, worth an astonishing 11,091 trillion Dollar Credits 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 an enormous, deeply entrenched, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Automobile Manufacturing, and Retail. 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 a breathtaking 720,350 Dollar Credits, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Dinner parties often end in politically charged fist fights, the government-sponsored autobiography 'A President Banks For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of President Banks's supporters, producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene, and scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new. Crime is totally unknown. The City of Guelph's national animal is the Grizzly Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Sibyl Worship.

The City of Guelph is ranked 288,569^th in the world and 11,163^rd in Lazarus for Most Beautiful Environments, with 3.08 pounds of wildlife per square mile.