The Federal Republic of GI-Land is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Leader and King Gianluca IV with an even hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, complete lack of prisons, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate population of 16.472 billion Gianlucians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Atlantis. The average income tax rate is 86.5%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse GI-Landian economy, worth a remarkable 1,305 trillion Gianlucian Tacks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 79,260 Gianlucian Tacks, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores, bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of, films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay, and there's no representation without taxation. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. GI-Land's national animal is the Phoenix-Cat, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

GI-Land is ranked 58,370^th in the world and 1,178^th in the South Pacific for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 3,367.91 on the Gilded Widget Scale.