The Dictatorship of Geckos is a titanic, orderly nation, ruled by Barry the Berry lover with an iron fist, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, disturbing lack of elderly people, and pith helmet sales. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 12.287 billion Geckosians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Industry, and Administration also on the agenda, while Social Policy and Welfare aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Berry bottom. The average income tax rate is 95.3%.

The frighteningly efficient Geckosian economy, worth a remarkable 4,117 trillion gecko bucks a year, is fairly diversified and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Uranium Mining, Information Technology, and Retail. Average income is an amazing 335,074 gecko bucks, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,155,488 per year while the poor average 71,126, a ratio of 16.2 to 1.

The government is full of esquivalience, politicians ponder for at least a minute when asked if they would like sugar in their tea, "Darwin's Disease" is a growing cause of death, and most fires are already out by the time the bucket brigade gets to them. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Geckos's national animal is the gecko, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is geckoism.

Geckos is ranked 317,717^th in the world and 16,981^st in Lazarus for Largest Trout Fishing Sector, scoring -9.96 on the Nemo Depletion Efficiency Index.