The Free Land of Garine is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its irreverence towards religion, absence of drug laws, and spontaneously combusting cars. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic population of 355 million Garineans enjoy some of the most opulent lifestyles in the region, unless they are unemployed or working-class, in which case they are variously starving to death or crippled by easily preventable diseases.

The relatively small, liberal government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Healthcare, and Education. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 9.0%.

The very strong Garinean economy, worth 18.3 trillion dollars a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Soda Sales industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing, Pizza Delivery, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 51,478 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 9.8 times as much as the poorest.

It's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from Leader's childhood, streaming video is considered to be a myth by most citizens, the government prefers to leave the past buried, and crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination. Crime is a serious problem, probably because of the absence of a police force. Garine's national animal is the crab, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.

Garine is ranked 125,023^rd in the world and 5,384^th in Osiris for Highest Foreign Aid Spending, scoring 114.74 on the Clooney Contribution Index.