The Chaotic Order of Ghad is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Aegis with an even hand, and notable for its public floggings, anti-smoking policies, and restrictive gun laws. The quiet, industrious population of 15.693 billion Ghadians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Law & Order, and Education. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Calxuria. The average income tax rate is 92.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Ghadian economy, worth a remarkable 1,470 trillion Souls a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 93,715 Souls, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down, children dream of becoming physicians and physicists, droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police, and reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ghad's national animal is the Daihan Fox, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Ghad is ranked 25,981^st in the world and 29^th in Karma for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 6,185.59 on the Gilded Widget Scale.