The People's Union of Galster is a titanic, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Matthew with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, digital currency, and zero percent divorce rate. The compassionate, cynical, cheerful population of 17.862 billion Galsterians 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, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Massalia. The income tax rate is 100%.

The frighteningly efficient Galsterian economy, worth a remarkable 4,758 trillion Gals a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism. Average income is an amazing 266,430 Gals, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Diplomats agree to the terms and conditions of peace treaties without reading them, ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products, promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service, and AI models unanimously choose all government facts. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Galster's national animal is the Cat, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Agnosticism.

Galster is ranked 7,524^th in the world and 83^rd in The Leftist Assembly for Most Cultured, scoring 129 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.