The Band of Gunship is a mammoth, efficient nation, notable for its rum-swilling pirates, frequent executions, and smutty television. The hard-nosed, humorless, devout population of 5.748 billion Gunshipians are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 85.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gunshipian economy, worth 980 trillion bronze nickels a year, is led by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Black market activity is frequent. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 170,621 bronze nickels, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.0 times as much as the poorest.

The Gunship City Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative, former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom, the government is spending billions of taxpayer bronze nickels to support "struggling" industries, and the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gunship's national animal is the rockwarbler, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gunship is ranked 25,625^th in the world and 101^st in Koprulu Sector for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 272.6 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.