The Empire of Gustavovich is a mammoth, cultured nation, ruled by Gustav XIX Gustavovich with an iron fist, and remarkable for its closed borders, ubiquitous missile silos, and enslaved workforce. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 7.926 billion Gustavovichians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The large, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, although Law & Order, Administration, and Education are also considered important, while Social Policy isn't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Gustavopol. The average income tax rate is 94.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Gustavovichian economy, worth a remarkable 1,599 trillion præpols a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is an enormous, deeply entrenched, fairly diversified black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an amazing 201,810 præpols, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Enthusiasm for abstract art has gone up in smoke, the government records billions of hours of footage of trees, the black market offers sweet deals, and woodland critters flock to the safety of unfamiliar humans wearing lab-coats. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gustavovich's national animal is the Black Jaguar, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Gustavovichian Orthodox Church.

Gustavovich is ranked 170,496^th in the world and 17^th in Elysion for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring 197.61 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.