The Republic of Gut Punch is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its daily referendums, enslaved workforce, and suspicion of poets. The compassionate, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.934 billion Gut Punchians 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 medium-sized, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 73.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Gut Punchian economy, worth 549 trillion dollars 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 black market in Arms Manufacturing, Information Technology, Tourism, and Automobile Manufacturing. 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 impressive 139,640 dollars, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.4 times as much as the poorest.

Drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web, increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times, if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise, and top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gut Punch's national animal is the hermit crab, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans.

Gut Punch is ranked 24,312^th in the world and 534^th in Aetherius for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 280.33 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.