The Citizen Republic of Gawdzendia is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Alexander Christensen with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, frequent executions, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, humorless population of 14.726 billion Gawdzendians are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The tiny, corrupt, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Adonia City. The average income tax rate is 3.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gawdzendian economy, worth a remarkable 3,478 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, broadly diversified black market in Information Technology, Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, and Beef-Based Agriculture. 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 236,232 GZDS, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Auditors are gutting every governmental department, the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer, the entire entry for Gawdzendia in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless', and Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown. Gawdzendia's national animal is the White Collar Desk Possum, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Lutheranism.

Gawdzendia is ranked 36,524^th in the world and 2^nd in Loosely Antagonistic Nations for Lowest Crime Rates, with 79.23 law-abiding acts per hour.