The United States of Garnett-KS- is a massive, efficient nation, notable for its pith helmet sales, avowedly heterosexual populace, and avant-garde cinema. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.669 billion Garnett-KS-ians 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, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 72.8%.

The frighteningly efficient Garnett-KS-ian economy, worth 520 trillion dollars 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 a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, Tourism, and Information Technology. 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 impressive 141,738 dollars, with the richest citizens earning 8.8 times as much as the poorest.

Pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security, newlywed misogynists complain about their wives keeping their maiden names, cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry, and most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Garnett-KS-'s national animal is the bald eagle, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Garnett-KS- is ranked 26,914^th in the world and 191^st in Aerospace for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,058.51 on the Gilded Widget Scale.