The Social Democracy of Gardavasque is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by President Pamela Paris with an even hand, and renowned for its museums and concert halls, pith helmet sales, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, devout population of 12.662 billion Gardavascans have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The large government juggles the competing demands of Education, Healthcare, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Eternity. The average income tax rate is 77.6%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The frighteningly efficient Gardavascan economy, worth a remarkable 1,557 trillion ¥escas a year, is highly specialized and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Book Publishing, and Retail. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 122,996 ¥escas, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

The bureaucracy's scale makes the trees wail, President Pamela Paris is quite hard to get a hold of, the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful, and the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gardavasque's national animal is the Banshee Eagle, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Eternal Life.

Gardavasque is ranked 219,462^nd in the world and 46^th in International Democratic Union for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 27,551.14 Standard Monetary Units.