The Holy High Kingdom of Gankands is a titanic, cultured nation, ruled by Victor Tarleton von Arcadia-Sova with an iron fist, and remarkable for its parental licensing program, zero percent divorce rate, and frequent executions. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 13.29 billion Gankandsians 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, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government prioritizes Defense, with Law & Order, Education, and Administration also on the agenda, while Social Policy and International Aid are ignored. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Marlvich. The average income tax rate is 99.1%.

The frighteningly efficient Gankandsian economy, worth a remarkable 5,106 trillion pounds a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Beef-Based Agriculture. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 384,243 pounds, with the richest citizens earning 5.2 times as much as the poorest.

Bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in, it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations, men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly, and the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gankands's national animal is the raven, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Imperial Cult.

Gankands is ranked 311,199^th in the world and 1^st in Dacia for Most Politically Free, scoring 2 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale.