The Zealous Zebra of Gio Farm 56 is a colossal, efficient nation, renowned for its ban on automobiles, public floggings, and free-roaming dinosaurs. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 8.614 billion Gio Farm 56ians are ruled without fear or favor by a psychotic dictator, who outlaws just about everything and refers to the populace as "my little playthings."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Administration, and Industry. The average income tax rate is 33.8%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The powerhouse Gio Farm 56ian economy, worth 932 trillion cards a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. However, for those in the know, there is a large, well-organized black market in Arms Manufacturing, Tourism, Uranium Mining, and Woodchip Exports. The private sector mostly consists of enterprising ten-year-olds selling lemonade on the sidewalk, but the government is looking at stamping this out. Average income is an impressive 108,276 cards, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 2.1 times as much as the poorest.

Police are arresting costumed characters at comic book conventions, citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive, every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead, and it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Gio Farm 56's national animal is the farm, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Gio Farm 56 is ranked 92,208^th in the world and 380^th in Giovanniland for Lowest Crime Rates, with 66.87 law-abiding acts per hour.