The Republic of Gorasnia is a large, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and irreverence towards religion. The cynical population of 193 million Gorasnians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Education. The average income tax rate is 72.1%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but stagnant Gorasnian economy, worth 3.08 trillion Geks a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Pizza Delivery, Arms Manufacturing, and Beef-Based Agriculture. Average income is 15,966 Geks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment, school uniforms are compulsory, panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet, and kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gorasnia's national animal is the Snake, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gorasnia is ranked 104,381^st in the world and 8^th in The Charter for Highest Unexpected Death Rate, scoring 33.57 on the Bus Surprisal Index.