The Green Otters' State of Garbelia is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Lutra Otto with an even hand, and notable for its soft-spoken computers, devotion to social welfare, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate population of 6.454 billion Garbelerii are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

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 96.6%.

The frighteningly efficient Garbelery economy, worth 721 trillion Garbels a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is extremely specialized, is mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Book Publishing. Average income is an impressive 111,751 Garbels, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired, the government has declared that too much democracy gets in the way of sensible leadership, college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys, and students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak. 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 286,677^th in the world and 294^th in Forest for Largest Furniture Restoration Industry, scoring -16.97 on the Spitz-Pollish Productivity Index.