The Republic of Governmentbig is a huge, orderly nation, remarkable for its disturbing lack of elderly people, irreverence towards religion, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical population of 294 million Governmentbigians 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 large, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Healthcare. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 48.5%.

The Governmentbigian economy, worth 17.5 trillion marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Door-to-door Insurance Sales, Book Publishing, and Arms Manufacturing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 59,382 marks, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 256,856 per year while the poor average 8,731, a ratio of 29.4 to 1.

The military will start wars with other nations on a lark, punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements, the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines, and Governmentbig recently decided against having a capital city. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Governmentbig's national animal is the beaver, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Governmentbig is ranked 261,008^th in the world and 11,208^th in Lazarus for Highest Poor Incomes, with 8,731.79 Standard Monetary Units.