The Rogue Nation of Gerlandium is a mid-sized, socially progressive nation, renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, compulsory military service, and irreverence towards religion. The hard-working, cynical population of 50 million Gerlandiumians are rabid consumers, partly through choice and partly because the government tells them to and dissenters tend to vanish from their homes at night.

The relatively small, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Welfare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.1%.

The very strong Gerlandiumian economy, worth 3.11 trillion pesos a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Book Publishing industry, with significant contributions from Woodchip Exports, Gambling, and Information Technology. Average income is 62,181 pesos, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 181,262 per year while the poor average 16,860, a ratio of 10.8 to 1.

The suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years, the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons, giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular, and fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate. Crime, especially youth-related, is relatively low. Gerlandium's national animal is the Sea cow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Gerlandium is ranked 307,585^th in the world and 3^rd in THE HOLY URANIUM DIRECTORATE for Largest Black Market, with 10.0 billion Standard Monetary Units.