The Federal Republic of Gyanistania is a huge, cultured nation, renowned for its ubiquitous missile silos, irreverence towards religion, and punitive income tax rates. The quiet, industrious population of 254 million Gyanistanians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 61.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Gyanistanian economy, worth 10.0 trillion Gyans a year, is fairly diversified and dominated by the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Uranium Mining, Door-to-door Insurance Sales, and Woodchip Exports. State-owned companies are common. Average income is 39,535 Gyans, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

It is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make Gyanistanian mussels the biggest in India, several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation, and gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gyanistania's national animal is the Gyanistanian Lion, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gyanistania is ranked 106,309^th in the world and 75^th in India for Most Subsidized Industry, scoring 1,242.59 on the Gilded Widget Scale.