The Giovannilandian Newspaper of Author is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its free-roaming dinosaurs, state-planned economy, and infamous sell-swords. The compassionate, devout population of 5.539 billion Authors are prohibited from doing almost everything except voting, which they do timidly and conservatively.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Administration. The average income tax rate is 56.0%.

The strong Author economy, worth 381 trillion books a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a slick, highly efficient, quite specialized black market in Trout Farming, Tourism, Arms Manufacturing, and Cheese Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is 68,859 books, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.0 times as much as the poorest.

Museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts, the government insists that a ghost voted ten million times in the last election, policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence', and it is illegal to liberate slaves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Author's national animal is the writer, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Author is ranked 226,556^th in the world and 367^th in Giovanniland for Largest Publishing Industry, scoring -3.77 on the Bella Potter Productivity e-Index.