The Eternal Citizen State of Gawdzendia is a titanic, efficient nation, ruled by Alexander Christensen with an even hand, and renowned for its frequent executions, sprawling nuclear power plants, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 18.396 billion Gawdzendians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The relatively small, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adonia City. The average income tax rate is 28.7%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gawdzendian economy, worth a remarkable 4,948 trillion GZDS 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 large, well-organized, fairly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. 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 an amazing 268,974 GZDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Public buses smell like litter boxes, it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from Alexander Christensen's childhood, every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains, and it is said that the captain goes down with the ship but ecological protection goes up. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gawdzendia's national animal is the White Collar Desk Possum, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Gawdzendia is ranked 252,813^th in the world and 2^nd in Loosely Antagonistic Nations for Safest, scoring 28.51 on the Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating.