The Holy Nation of Girolamo is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Savonarola with an iron fist, and renowned for its deadly medical pandemics, free-roaming dinosaurs, and fear of technology. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless, devout population of 3.66 billion Giromons are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Law & Order, and Spirituality. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Farrera. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 73.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Giromon economy, worth 652 trillion Florins a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Arms Manufacturing, Trout Farming, Retail, and Furniture Restoration. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 178,158 Florins, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 794,586 per year while the poor average 24,818, a ratio of 32.0 to 1.

Twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes, the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks", the nation's healthcare system has taken a "survival of the fittest" approach in administering care, and the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Girolamo's national animal is the Pegasus, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is New Catholicism.

Girolamo is ranked 17,410^th in the world and 37^th in The Land of Kings and Emperors for Lowest Crime Rates, with 91.94 law-abiding acts per hour.