The Democratic Republic of Geploastan is a massive, genial nation, ruled by Prime Minister Graves with a fair hand, and remarkable for its national health service, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The compassionate, democratic, cheerful population of 2.553 billion Geploastanians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

The enormous, outspoken government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Healthcare, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Choibridge. The average income tax rate is 93.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Geploastanian economy, worth 321 trillion Federal Rials a year, is quite specialized and mostly made up of the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 126,125 Federal Rials, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship, the government has enacted freedom of information, minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home, and nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Geploastan's national animal is the dog, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Cake.

Geploastan is ranked 288,122^nd in the world and 5,380^th in the South Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -19.8 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.