The State of Ghedeland is a colossal, socially progressive nation, ruled by Supreme Leader Taeko Van Pels with an iron fist, and renowned for its compulsory military service, free-roaming dinosaurs, and parental licensing program. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, cheerful population of 7.282 billion Ghedelandais are ruled by a mostly-benevolent dictator, who grants the populace the freedom to live their own lives but watches carefully for anyone to slip up.

The medium-sized, corrupt government juggles the competing demands of Education, Industry, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Kantora. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 92.4%.

The frighteningly efficient Ghedelandian economy, worth a remarkable 2,509 trillion Samedi Francs a year, is quite specialized and mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Information Technology, Tourism, Retail, and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an amazing 344,642 Samedi Francs, with the richest citizens earning 9.7 times as much as the poorest.

A handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation, medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters, weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law, and the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, with the police force struggling against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. Ghedeland's national animal is the Black Faced Seagull, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Voodoo.

Ghedeland is ranked 258,157^th in the world and 225^th in Commonwealth of Liberty for Healthiest Citizens, with 0.41 bananas ingested per day.