The Community of Get Real 48 is a massive, orderly nation, notable for its compulsory military service, ritual sacrifices, and restrictive gun laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 2.968 billion Get Real 48ians are ruled with an iron fist by the corrupt, dictatorship government, which oppresses anyone who isn't on the board of a Fortune 500 company. Large corporations tend to be above the law, and use their financial clout to gain ever-increasing government benefits at the expense of the poor and unemployed.

The medium-sized, moralistic, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Defense, and Administration. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 23.6%.

The powerhouse Get Real 48ian economy, worth 201 trillion feathers a year, is fairly diversified and led by the Gambling industry, with major contributions from Cheese Exports, Book Publishing, and Door-to-door Insurance Sales. Average income is 67,917 feathers, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 282,433 per year while the poor average 10,685, a ratio of 26.4 to 1.

Homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities, the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world, grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps, and elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates. Crime is a problem, possibly because it is difficult to make it through a day without breaking one of the country's many regulations. Get Real 48's national animal is the junk values, which is also the nation's favorite main course.

Get Real 48 is ranked 189,580^th in the world and 971^st in TPFKAQ for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 46.83 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.