The Chess Player of Gio Farm 103 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its keen interest in outer space, avant-garde cinema, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, hard-working, humorless, devout population of 8.306 billion Gio Farm 103ians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 66.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 103ian economy, worth 956 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Furniture Restoration. Average income is an impressive 115,108 cards, with the richest citizens earning 5.5 times as much as the poorest.

Parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills, exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting, the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority, and there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 103's national animal is the farmer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gio Farm 103 is ranked 239,791^st in the world and 419^th in Giovanniland for Largest Automobile Manufacturing Sector, scoring -6.48 on the Henry Ford Productivity Index.