The Scintillating Sea of Gio Farm 84 is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, infamous sell-swords, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.721 billion Gio Farm 84ians are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.5%.

The frighteningly efficient Gio Farm 84ian economy, worth a remarkable 1,127 trillion cards a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Tourism. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 129,268 cards, with the richest citizens earning 6.0 times as much as the poorest.

Cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers, you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg, the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to, and almost all products in Gio Farm 84 are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 84's national animal is the farm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gio Farm 84 is ranked 36,782^nd in the world and 116^th in Giovanniland for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 4,988.46 on the Gilded Widget Scale.