The Green Otter's State of Garbelia is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Lutra Otto with a fair hand, and remarkable for its daily referendums, rampant corporate plagiarism, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 1.731 billion Garbeli love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

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 95.6%.

The powerhouse Garbelery economy, worth 168 trillion CryptoGarbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Trout Farming and Book Publishing. Average income is 97,152 CryptoGarbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

A fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion, the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free, foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election", and droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police. 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 210,947^th in the world and 382^nd in Forest for Most Corrupt Governments, with 0.52 kickbacks per hour.