The Green Otters' State of Garbelia is a colossal, cultured nation, ruled by Lutra Otto with an iron fist, and remarkable for its soft-spoken computers, state-planned economy, and ban on automobiles. The compassionate, cynical population of 8.954 billion Garbelerii are ruled with an iron fist by the socialist government, which grants its people the freedom to do whatever they like so long as it doesn't involve getting richer than anybody else or challenging the government.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Garvida. The average income tax rate is 98.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Garbelery economy, worth a remarkable 1,070 trillion Garbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Information Technology industry. Average income is an impressive 119,544 Garbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside, a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League, customs officers pretend not to hear shouts of "HELP LET ME OUT!" emerging from diplomatic bags, and sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour'. Crime is totally unknown. Garbelia's national animal is the Otter, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans, and its national religion is Lutrianism.

Garbelia is ranked 311,724^th in the world and 281^st in Forest for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 2,390.89 Standard Monetary Units.