The Empire of Gadyushnika is a huge, safe nation, remarkable for its national health service, pith helmet sales, and public floggings. The hard-nosed, cynical population of 670 million Gadyushnikas are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. The average income tax rate is 66.4%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Gadyushnikan economy, worth 85.1 trillion Barans a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is fairly diversified, is led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Beef-Based Agriculture, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is an impressive 127,077 Barans, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Nephews and nieces of the monarch resort to begging from relatives in palace halls, citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over Gadyushnika, state officials tend to disappear after they forget to salute Leader's portrait, and construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gadyushnika's national animal is the sheep, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.

Gadyushnika is ranked 292,506^th in the world and 598^th in Sophia for Most Primitive, scoring -243.54 on the Scary Big Number Scale.